Market Volatility & Freight Cost Dynamics

Since the COVID pandemic of 2021 and since following breakouts of major wars there has been a large increase in blank sailings, which are cancelled shipments by carriers with low demand being a key reason many times.

Low demand has an inverse relationship with shipment freight charges since the lack of economies of scale that high volume shipping route carriers have means that shipments can’t be consolidated amongst plentiful cargo and rising fees have to make up for the shortfall.

Freight Rate Monitoring & Global Positioning

Via Charon is constantly monitoring Container freight rates using indices such as the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index or SCFI.

Even though there has been a severe surge in freight rates across the world since the 2021, we still can find rates that allow for business profitability.

Also our placement in most regions across the world gives us logistical vantage points that enable us to foresee blank sailings by having the capacity to predict a potential crisis like port congestion.

Advanced Optimisation & Fleet Repositioning

The Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem or the LSFRP is a shipping optimization challenge that all international traders that import or export frequently must be prepared to confront.

However, Via Charon takes on that burden on behalf of its customers.

Our creative logistical solution softwares is meant to be comparable and can be synchronised with the ‘simulated annealing’ algorithms that liner shipping companies use which are complex algorithms that