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Capacity conundrum for shippers as carriers unveil post-Golden Week blanks

The Loadstar Trade press Published 6th October 2026 UK

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With China’s Golden Week holiday under way and factories closed, supply chain planners’ attention has shifted to calculating shipping capacity out of Asia once Chinese workers return and container flows gear up again. According to Drewry’s Cancelled Sailings tracker, 39 blanked sailings have been announced in the period from Week 41 (5–11 October) to Week 45 (2–8 November) across three deepsea east-west trades – the transpacific, transatlantic and Asia-Europe – 5% ... The post <a href="https://theloadstar.com/capacity-conundrum-for-shippers-as-carriers-unveil-post-golden-week-blanks/">Capacity conundrum for shippers as carriers unveil post-Golden Week blanks</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theloadstar.com">The Loadstar</a>.

Publication: The Loadstar · Trade Publication
Published: 6th October 2026
Original report: theloadstar.com

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: UK
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 6th October 2026 · 14:36

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Significance 3 · Material

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Material (41.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 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).

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity

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Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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