Freight Market Update - October 2026
Asia to Australia freight enters October with an unusual combination: port queues at major Asian gateways are easing, but global schedule reliability has fallen to its weakest level in four years.
The market is not short of ships. The problem is that weather, route changes, blank sailings and geopolitical risk mean capacity is not always where, or when, the schedule says it will be.
From October to December, the businesses that stay in control will be the ones that build in buffer and decide early.
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