Sunday signal, and it doubles as a half-year line for anyone importing into Kuwait.
Gulf sea transit is still running at a fraction of normal, and no serious analyst is pricing a clean reopening before year-end. For Kuwait importers, three things stopped being temporary in H1:
- Surcharges aren't a spike — they're the baseline. Budget H2 with them in, not around them.
- The sea ETA is a guess. Plan to the cutoff, not the arrival date.
- Origin concentration is the real exposure. One overloaded lane is one bad week away from stranding your stock.
The H2 move isn't waiting for the strait to clear. It's locking alternative-mode capacity now — the Nuwaiseeb land bridge for GCC and Turkey cargo, air for anything time-critical — because every importer who rerouted off sea is bidding for the same trucks and the same belly space. The ones who booked that capacity in H1 are paying a fraction of what the latecomers will pay in H2.
Which of your lines still has no plan B? Send us the lane and we'll map it.