By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025HONG KONG — September 4, 2025. The emails started landing late Tuesday night. By dawn on Wednesday, forwarders from Shenzhen to Hamburg were already forwarding the same subject lines to their teams: “blank sailing,” “rotation removed,” “schedule change.”Golden Week doesn’t begin until next week, but carriers are pulling services earlier than anyone expected. For freight forwarders, that means containers waiting on the quay with no confirmed vessel and clients demanding answers.“Two departures gone in 24 hours”On the yard at Yantian terminal, dozens of boxes are stacked, still waiting. A local forwarder, visibly frustrated, shared: “We booked space three weeks ahead. Yesterday two departures just disappeared from the screen. Now we’re jug...