CMA-CGM has flagged the risks to container-line services from a series of typhoons expected to hit the Chinese coast shortly. Such weather conditions are typical for the August/September period and can have significantly disruptive effects. CMA-CGM may be particularly at risk given the recent rapid growth in traffic – 6% in the past three months on a year earlier and 21% in the prior three quarters – and the importance of its high speed (and so less fault-tolerant) Eagle Go service. In common with most other container-lines CMA-CGM is most exposed to route pairs including Yantian (28% of...