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Intra-Asia rates soften, but carriers continue to add capacity

Source
The Loadstar
Source link
https://theloadstar.com/intra-asia-rates-soften-but-carriers-continue-to-add-capacity/
Published
2026-07-30 11:05:28
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-07-31 07:49:49
Category
Freight, Shipping & Logistics
Geography
UK
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

<p>Intra-Asia rates continue to weaken as market observers say the busy H1 26 for Chinese exports is fading.<br /> Drewry&#8217;s Intra-Asia Container Index showed that, as of 23 July, rates from Shanghai to JNPA (Nhava Sheva) slid 4% from 16 July, to $1,667 per 40ft, from Shanghai to Jakarta they were down 4%, to $1,475 per 40ft, and from Shanghai to Kaohsiung they also fell 4% to $1,433 per 40ft.<br /> On 24 July, ...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theloadstar.com/intra-asia-rates-soften-but-carriers-continue-to-add-capacity/">Intra-Asia rates soften, but carriers continue to add capacity</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theloadstar.com">The Loadstar</a>.</p>

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 33.3/100 — evaluated 2026-07-31 08:55:19
Passed on: logistics_freight_transport, capacity_production_disruption, geographic_exposure (score 33.3/100, threshold 20.0).
  • logistics_freight_transport (weight 12) — matched on "container"
  • capacity_production_disruption (weight 12) — matched on "capacity"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
2 · Moderate (37.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (37.5/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Partial
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Moderate (37.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (37.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • single source only
  • Only source-level entity metadata was available.
  • Only source-level geography metadata was available.
  • Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-03 16:29:52.