According to the latest news, Guangzhou’s current epidemic prevention requirements are that citizens must not leave Guangzhou or leave the province unless necessary. Starting from 12:00 on June 7, those who really need to leave Guangzhou or leave the province must have a 48-hour nucleic acid test. Negative certificate.
Shenzhen’s requirement is that starting from 12:00 on June 7, those leaving Shenzhen need to hold a 72-hour nucleic acid negative certificate and a green code; Guangzhou, Foshan ID card or 14 If you have a history of living in Guangzhou or Foshan within the past few days, you must provide a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours.
The current local epidemic in Guangzhou and Shenzhen has seriously affected foreign trade shipments in South China. (For the shipping company’s latest route adjustment announcement, please see the second piece of information today!)
Yantian Port operations have slowed down and shipping schedules have been delayed
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Since May 31, the Yantian International Gate has resumed receiving export heavy containers in an orderly manner, and has implemented the “no appointment, no entry” system as required.
The entry arrangements for export heavy containers after June 6 are as follows:
From June 7, only ETA- Export heavy containers within 3 days (i.e. within three days before the expected arrival date of the ship); continue to strictly implement the “no appointment, no entry” system, please trailer before submitting export heavy containers at Peng Shipping’s “Easy Pickup Container” APP or terminal Make an appointment on the “Port Entry Declaration” APP. You can enter the port only after the appointment is successful.
Currently, there are about 40 container ships waiting for berths at Yantian Port, with a backlog of about 23,000 export containers. Shipping companies such as Maersk, MSC, ONE, and Hapag-Lloyd have all A port-jumping notice was issued to cancel the call at Yantian International Container Terminal. Maersk even canceled the call at the nearby Shekou Port.
Maersk said in a customer advisory report last Thursday that productivity in the eastern port area of Yantian International Container Terminal dropped to 30% of normal levels, while all operations in the western port area of Yantian All are suspended until further notice. Maersk expects vessel delays at Yantian International to be “more than 14 days”. Meanwhile, COVID-19 prevention measures at Shekou Port are now limiting the movement of export containers.
Nansha Port is clogged into a parking lot
Affected by the congestion and port jumping at Yantian Port, a large number of Goods from South China are diverted to the surrounding Shekou Port and Guangzhou Nansha Port. However, a large number of Shenzhen drivers who go to Nansha Port are unfamiliar with the place – they are not familiar with gate entry procedures, internal driving rules, storage yard locations, etc., which affects the efficiency of terminal operations.
As a result, Nansha Port was blocked into a parking lot.
To make matters worse, Nansha was also closed later!
According to the “Guangzhou Nansha Release” WeChat public account, in order to cooperate with the nucleic acid testing work of all employees, starting from 14:00 on June 5, 2021, all city buses, subways, Ferry and long-distance passenger transport operations are suspended; citizens are not allowed to leave without special reasons. All highways, high-speed rails, docks, etc. leaving Nansha are temporarily closed. Nansha will announce the unblocking on June 6.
Yantian Port issued another notice on June 6: “According to the government’s epidemic prevention requirements, all drivers entering the port must present the Guangdong Health Code and itinerary code. Drivers and vehicles that have been to Nansha Port are prohibited from entering the port; it will be implemented from now on. Please cooperate.”
The latest notice from Shekou/Chiwan Port
Shekou/Chiwan requires that starting from 0:00 on June 9, anyone entering the terminal must provide a nucleic acid test report within 3 days. Otherwise, they will not be allowed to enter the port.
The freight price has increased astonishingly
Now, some are anxious to ship Many foreign traders have begun to bring goods to Xiamen Port, or are willing to spend more money to go to Yangshan Port. Some people have even simply switched to railway transportation.
However, these remedial measures also mean another rise in transportation costs.
Some people in the industry believe that the impact of the local epidemic in South China on the international shipping market is no less than that of the Suez Canal blockage.
In May, Hapag-Lloyd took the lead and decided to increase the GRI on the Asia-North America route starting from June 15, with a maximum increase of US$3,000 per 40-foot container.
On June 2, Mediterranean Shipping MSC, the world’s second largest shipping company, immediately issued a price increase notice.
On the same day, COSCO Shipping issued a peak season surcharge (PSS) notice from Asia to Europe, with an increase of US$800 per container.
This week’s Baltic Freight Index(FBX) is equally amazing, the Asia-Northern Europe line even increased by 11%!
In the short term, the feverish shipping market will not be able to subside. </p
