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[quote user="VOLKER LANDWEHR"] I sent an e-mail and hope for an answer sometime.[/quote] In the meantime a got an answer from MSC, Maersk and Evergreen. They all give information only to logistic companies not private persons. If interested perhaps someone in the USA could ask a local logistic provider for the rate of a loaded 40' container from Shanghai to New York westbound via the Suez Canal or the difference of that journey to the eastbound travel through the Panama Canal. I found a website explaining that e.g. Maersk re-routed traffic from Asia to the East Coast to the Suez Canal Route. But that was in 2013 before the extensions on both canals: <a href="http://www.shiplilly.com/blog/asia-us-east-coast-ocean-freight-reroute-suez-versus-panama/">http://www.shiplilly.com/blog/asia-us-east-coast-ocean-freight-reroute-suez-versus-panama/</a> There is another interesting development. A number of ships are going around the Horn of Africa on the return trip to Asia avoiding both canals. How large the savings are depends on fuel cost an canal tolls. As far as I read yesterday the Suez Canal offers discounts to get the ships back. <a href="https://www.lloydsloadinglist.com/freight-directory/news/Carriers-tap-alternative-route-for-Asia-US-east-coast-backhaul-leg/65617.htm#.WjwGCDciGM8">https://www.lloydsloadinglist.com/freight-directory/news/Carriers-tap-alternative-route-for-Asia-US-east-coast-backhaul-leg/65617.htm#.WjwGCDciGM8</a> And here is an article on the impact of the Panama Canal extention: Panama Canal expansion: game changer, or more of the same? <a href="http://www.supplychainquarterly.com/topics/Logistics/201201panama/">http://www.supplychainquarterly.com/topics/Logistics/201201panama/</a> An equation with a lot of variables. Regards, Volker
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