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Massive Suspension of Sailings! Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd Adjust 2026 Spring Festival Schedule; Today's Plastic Prices Steady with Increases, PS Up 470

Plastmatch 2025-12-26 11:15:21

1. A large number of blank sailings! Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd announce their 2026 Spring Festival sailing suspension plan.

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, under the Gemini Alliance, recently announced that a significant number of sailings will be canceled during the Chinese New Year. As February 17 marks the Chinese Lunar New Year, this holiday will result in the cancellation of 16 sailings within the Gemini network, affecting several routes across the Trans-Pacific, Europe, Arabian Gulf, and South America East.

As part of the 2026 Chinese New Year plan, Maersk will implement temporary schedule adjustments in the Trans-Pacific route network. Due to reduced export activities during the holiday period, a small number of sailings need to be suspended to adjust capacity and maintain the reliability of the entire network. According to Hapag-Lloyd, these suspensions will affect seven Asia-to-US routes and five Asia-to-Europe routes.

Maersk Blank Sailing Adjustment

2026 Chinese New Year - Trans-Pacific Route Voyage Adjustment

2026 Chinese New Year - Adjustments to European Route Voyages

As the Chinese New Year holiday approaches, Maersk is adjusting its route network to balance anticipated demand decline and reduced cargo transportation personnel. The goal is to minimize the impact on customers before and after the Spring Festival, implementing structural adjustments and planning alternative routes to enhance supply chain predictability. The details of blank sailings have been announced, and Maersk will also develop response plans to ensure that customers can book through usual channels.

2026 Chinese New Year - Adjustment of Voyages on the Arabian Gulf Route

As the Spring Festival approaches, Maersk understands the unique challenges of this period and will continue to ensure the reliability of customers' supply chains, minimizing business interruptions. To actively respond, Maersk is implementing structural changes, planning alternative routes, enhancing predictability, and ensuring smooth customer operations before and after the Spring Festival. To keep customers fully informed, we now announce details of planned capacity adjustments, and the following sailings will be canceled:

2026 Chinese New Year - Adjustment of South America East Route Voyages

Maersk has informed customers that in order to align capacity with current market demand and maintain reliability across the network, the ASAS2 service will be suspended. The details of the affected voyages are as follows:

Hapag-Lloyd Blank Sailing Adjustment Notice

The Spring Festival holiday is approaching, and Hapag-Lloyd has issued the latest notice on route network adjustments to its customers. It has fully considered customers' cargo transportation plans, striving to provide predictable route arrangements and optimal solutions to minimize potential impacts on customers' supply chains.

For the US East Coast, the affected route is US1, which will end after calling at Busan in weeks 7, 8, and 9 of 2026; and the US2 route, which will call at Savannah in week 8 and skip Norfolk in week 10. For the West Coast, WC1, WC3, and WC4 will suspend operations in week 9, while WC2 will suspend operations in week 8. The Asia-Europe routes affected include NE1 and NE3 in week 9, as well as SE1 and SE2, which will suspend operations in week 8, and SE3, which will suspend operations in week 9.

The following is the information on the number of affected weeks, canceled sailings, routes, and departure ports:

Trans-Pacific route

European routes

Middle East Persian Gulf Route

II. Latest Plastic Prices on December 26

As of 11:00 a.m. on December 26, the statistics from Zhuan Su Shi Jie indicate that the plastic market has generally stabilized and risen.

In various regions, the PS market is steadily increasing, with a maximum rise of 470 yuan; the PC market is also steadily increasing, with a maximum rise of 250 yuan; the PA market is steadily increasing, with a maximum rise of 200 yuan; the ABS market experiences mixed changes, with the highest increase of 300 yuan and the largest decrease of 250 yuan; the PVC market generally sees a decline of 10-30 yuan, with a maximum drop of 30 yuan; EVA, POM, PBT, PET, PLA, and PBAT remain stable.

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Massive Suspension of Sailings! Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd Adjust 2026 Spring Festival Schedule; Today's Plastic Prices Steady with Increases, PS Up 470

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