Golden Week pre-build meets record typhoon backlog as 4.31m TEU wait for berth

Summary

Linerlytica puts container capacity waiting for berth at 4.31m TEU as of late August, topping the prior 4m TEU record, with North Asia alone holding 54% of global congestion (~2.5m TEU). Shippers are front-loading cargo ahead of China's 1-7 Oct National Day holiday, but terminals have not cleared a two-month typhoon backlog; only 55 idle vessels (0.5% of fleet) remain to recover rotations.