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Sea-Intelligence reported that only 50.6% of container ships arrived on schedule in September, with reliability recovering slightly from 49.9% in August, the lowest since September 2022. Asian port congestion, especially at Shanghai and Ningbo, remains the main disruption.
Freightos data showed Asia to US East Coast rates up 9% to $10,565 per FEU as carriers return to Suez routing.
Congestion and schedule delays tighten effective container capacity, lifting ocean freight costs for grain and meal exporters into Asia and Europe. Higher freight raises landed feed ingredient costs for importers.
meobserver.newsMEO EditorialOct 31, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
