Today, the global shipping industry is a combination of ice and fire. The epidemic situation in many overseas countries is severe, and there is a shortage of manpower. Major Asian ports are busy with transportation, but they are often plagued by “lack of containers” and “shortage of containers”. Container prices have soared, and some shipping routes have increased by nearly 10 times. A container is still hard to find “.
Domestic ports are thirsty for boxes. Foreign trade enterprises are hard to find a box.
For some time, many ports in China, container registration around the queue is always full of people waiting.
Since the third quarter of last year, the shortage of containers in major ports spread, according to a number of media reports, some scalpers take the opportunity to sit on the ground, some airlines raise the price of 3000 dollars may not grab a container. Because of the lack of boxes and a lot of production enterprises.
The price of our company’s container of power cord to the Middle East has increased from about 2000 dollars to nearly 6000 dollars, and the price of the container to the United States has even increased by nearly 10 times.
The anxiety of the enterprise, constantly pushing up the sales price of the container. In the first half of 2020, the price of a small 20-foot case was $1,600, and now it’s as high as $3,600, while the popular 40-foot case has doubled to $5,950, hitting an all-time high.
Different from the “one box is hard to find” in China, Auckland Port of New Zealand has a serious overstock of empty containers. Since the second half of 2020, in order to store those empty containers that can not be transported, they have found five new yards, and at most, nearly 6,000 empty containers are stranded in Auckland.
Statistics show that between 10,000 and 15,000 containers are stranded in California. At Port Felixstowe in the UK, containers have spread from the port to the surrounding suburbs. Australian ports hold more than 50,000 empty containers. At present, some important ports in the international empty container stock is three times the normal level.
China’s manufacturing sector boosts shipping demand as global economy recovers
This wave of rising prices in the shipping industry, due to a number of factors, such as the severity of the epidemic overseas, the Suez Canal blocked, the shipping industry pressure doubled.
With the recovery of the global economy, the trade demand of all countries has soared. Thanks to the effective control of the epidemic in China, China’s manufacturing industry has assumed an important responsibility in the global industrial chain. The total value of China’s imports and exports of tradable goods in the first four months of this year increased by 28.5 percent over the same period in 2020 and 21.8 percent over the same period in 2019, the data showed.
A large number of goods continue to flow from China to overseas, which shows that China’s production capacity is particularly strong, and now in the middle of the epidemic, everyone can count on that is made in China.
It’s been two months since the Suez Canal blockage, but the impact is still being felt. Add to this the cumulative effects of COVID-19, and the resulting disruptions in shipping times and congestion at ports are happening all over the world.
At least seven of the 10 busiest ports in the United States now face regular congestion. Southeast Asia, Europe and other major ports, ships waiting for berthing time to reach more than a week.
China is working hard to unclog the arteries of maritime trade
At present, 90 per cent of world trade is carried out by sea. Poor shipping would have a damaging impact on the global economic recovery. To this end, China has taken a number of measures to unclog the arteries of global trade.
China is the world’s main container producer, making more than 96 percent of the world’s dry cargo containers and 100 percent of the world’s refrigerated containers. In order to cope with the “one box is hard to find” dilemma, Chinese container manufacturers are working overtime to produce containers.
At the same time, the major ports are also actively strive for the return of sea empty containers, recently, a ship full of standard containers, slowly close to Ningbo port, different from the past is that the whole ship more than 13,000 containers are empty. After the ship has docked, the empty boxes will be first unloaded and sent to the country.
It is now up to the second half of the year for production and transportation to return to a relatively stable level as vaccines are widely available and the epidemic is under full control.
Post time: Jun-07-2021