You have the goods, I have the lockers, but neither of us has space! You have the goods, I have the car, but the driver doesn’t want to drive! You have a driver, I have the goods, no cabinets or space!
The Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are coming soon, but many freight forwarders and foreign trade personnel are not happy at all. Price increases, liquidation, dumping, congestion, and delays are more commonplace.
During this period, it is just in time for the peak pre-holiday shipment period, and it is even more difficult to find a box!
A box is hard to find! This word is not an exaggeration at all!
First, let’s take a look at the announcement from Shenzhen Yantian Terminal:
Dear customers:
The terminal is currently hourly The operating volume has reached 1,300 vehicles. Many roads in the terminal are already congested. There is a lot of congestion at the exit of the parking lot. The gate must be slowed down, otherwise the congestion will be aggravated, which will greatly affect the processing capacity of the terminal. Therefore, the gate entry speed must be controlled during certain periods of time.
We are not saving manpower. During this period, the manpower and machinery configuration are sufficient, and all available machinery has been put into operation. However, the cars entering cannot digest it, which will lead to a vicious cycle. It is expected that in the next two years This will be the case every day, and I hope the company and the driver will understand.
Let’s enjoy this set of pictures again:
The road to the pier has begun to be congested, with a long queue stretching seven or eight kilometers away:
Empty trucks that come to pick up boxes and load them into containers, as well as those that load boxes and go to the port, are all concentrated around the port, eventually causing congestion in the yard! The road is blocked! The port area is blocked! All kinds of blockages! The already congested roads have become even more chaotic!
The above conversation vividly illustrates this phenomenon. When a car goes to pick up a suitcase, there is no suitcase; when the suitcase is in place, the car cannot be found!
Many local friends are also reporting these situations to us:
MSK: Containers have been Shortage
Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, admitted that due to the hot Pacific market, there has been a shortage of containers in the market for several months, especially large containers with a length of 40 feet.
Maersk’s statement came a day after DHL, one of the industry’s largest customers globally, criticized the shipping company for shipping large numbers of containers across the Pacific to profit from record high freight rates on the U.S. West Coast. This has therefore led to shortages of containers in other parts of the world, such as on major Asia-Europe trade routes.
This specifically involves a shortage of 40-foot HC containers, which are 1 foot taller than a standard 40-foot container, Maersk wrote in an email.
“In recent months, we have seen a general shortage of containers in the market, especially 40-foot HC containers, which are currently the strongest trading customers in the market using this type of container, due to the turmoil caused by the epidemic. This situation is further aggravated by the resulting bottlenecks in global supply chains,” Maersk wrote.
Dominique von Orelli, head of ocean freight at DHL Global Forwarding, pointed out this problem. He also said: “Some ocean carriers are currently unloading container equipment from the Asia-Europe trade lanes and intra-Asia lanes in order to To a certain extent, it will be deployed on high-yield routes such as the Trans-Pacific and Latin America.”
“Based on this, we have observed container shortages on the Asia-Europe trade routes and delays in some areas.”
Container shortage in India delays export of goods
Logistics company New Jersey-based Worldwide Logistics said that the container shortage has spread to India, with inland container warehouses being the most serious. , shortages are also evident at ports.
Most direct and transshipment services from the main gateway ports of Mumbai and Mundra to the east and west coasts of the United States have been affected, with space constraints from Asian transshipment hubs further exacerbating transshipment. Conbox Logistics CEO Rakesh Pandit also believes that the shortage of containers at inland terminals is particularly serious. “The shortage will be worse if carriers have to plan shipments from dry ports in central and western India,” he said.
“Some industries will need to wait one to two weeks to get orders.” and containers, such as pharmaceutical companies, which are waiting nearly two weeks to get orders from U.S. ports. Planned shipments of marble, rice and other agricultural commodities are also being delayed.”
Halloween, Christmas and other Western festivals are approaching. Many merchants hope to boost sales through holiday promotions and start placing orders early to stock up. Affected by the epidemic in the first half of the year, many shipping companies, especially long-distance routes, greatly reduced their shipping capacity in order to save costs. In order to ensure that products arrive on time and put on shelves, freight volume has recently begun to gradually increase since the third quarter.
Due to the recent boom in the shipping market, freight rates have been soaring for several months. Shipping companies have adjusted their capacity and withdrawn ships from the market due to the impact of the epidemic!
Attention
With the peak season, sailing suspensions, cabin explosions, and price increases, etc., everyone must be prepared in advance and communicate with the shipping company when shipping.Manage and arrange the container entry plan to avoid additional costs. In addition, at this special stage, please give more understanding to the tow truck drivers. Expediting shipments and expediting box making will cause the fleet and tow truck drivers to be overwhelmed. </p
