Vietnam has been the biggest winner of the reshuffling of US-bound trade, and the 2026 booking data shows that momentum accelerating rather than leveling off.

Vizion TradeView tracks container bookings at the moment they are made, weeks before vessels sail. On the Vietnam to US lane, booked volume from Week 2 through Week 31 of 2026 reached 1,550,460 TEU, up 19.2% from 1,300,674 TEU over the same weeks of 2025. Average weekly volume climbed from roughly 43,400 TEU to 51,700 TEU.

The peak came early and stayed high

The shape of the two years tells the story better than the totals. Through the spring, 2026 ran modestly ahead of 2025, with the familiar dips around Tet and Vietnam's late-April holidays showing up in both years.

Then the peak hit. In 2025, weekly bookings crossed 60,000 TEU exactly twice all year, topping out at 61,816 TEU in Week 23. In 2026, the lane posted nine consecutive weeks at or above 60,000 TEU, from Week 21 through Week 29, peaking at 70,335 TEU in Week 22. That is a 13.8% higher peak, sustained for more than two months.

Bookings have eased from that high in recent weeks, with Week 31 at 50,545 TEU. Even that cooldown level would have counted as a strong week by 2025 standards.

What is in the boxes

Furniture remains the backbone of the lane. Bookings filed at the 4-digit heading 9403 held steady at roughly 166,000 TEU, and wooden furniture (940360) was essentially flat. The growth sits in specific categories:

1. Upholstered wooden seats (940161) jumped 40%, from 52,680 to 73,811 TEU, the single largest volume gain of any commodity on the lane.
2. Metal furniture (940320) rose 40% to 16,928 TEU.
3. Toys (950300) climbed 55% to 12,697 TEU, a signal worth watching ahead of holiday inventory season.
4. Prefabricated buildings (940610) went from 295 TEU in 2025 to 13,382 TEU in 2026, appearing on the lane at scale for the first time.

Apparel is moving too. Knitwear under chapter 61 rose 16% and woven apparel under chapter 62 rose 32%, with men's overcoats (620111) growing from 889 to 5,114 TEU.

The picture is mixed rather than uniformly up. Bookings filed under chapter 85 electrical machinery fell 29%, and new pneumatic tires (4011) dropped 44%. Growth on this lane is being driven by furniture, apparel, toys, and building products, while some electronics volume moves elsewhere.

Why booking data sees this first

Sailing schedules and customs data confirm shifts like this months after they happen. Booking data shows them as they form. The nine-week stretch above 60,000 TEU was visible in TradeView while those containers were still at origin, which is exactly when capacity planners, forwarders, and BCOs competing for space on the lane needed to know.

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