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It'S Hard To Find A Container In China, And There Is No Place For European And American Containers To Be Placed: Where Is The "Cabinet"?

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In Zhejiang, the head of a small household electrical appliance foreign trade enterprise, Mr. Chen, encountered a problem: his goods had to be delayed for export due to the lack of containers.

"They are all queuing up. Now it's hard to get a container. The freight rate has gone up to the sky. There is no way to guarantee that the goods can be transported on time." Mr. Chen told China times.

At this time, in large ports such as Qingdao, Lianyungang, Ningbo and Shanghai, due to the extremely lack of containers, the berthing operation of ships is delayed and the ports are under pressure.

However, on the other side of the ocean, many ports in Europe and the United States are facing serious congestion due to the surge of containers.

It is understood that with the gradual resumption of work and lifting of the ban in Europe and the United States, port consolidation trade has gradually recovered. In addition, during the epidemic period, ports around the world could not operate normally, resulting in poor return of containers scattered all over the world, resulting in the situation that one container in China is hard to find and there is no place for European and American containers to be placed.

"As early as may and June this year, this situation has already appeared. Because the container ship mainly carries industrial manufactured goods, it is an important link in the circulation of the entire industrial chain. At present, the global economic recovery is not balanced and the pace of recovery is not the same. Therefore, China, which took the lead in the recovery, has a large number of industrial goods to be transported abroad, but there are not many industrial products on the return journey, which leads to the poor flow of containers in the world. As China's economy picks up further, this situation is becoming more and more obvious. " Lin Shulai, chief analyst of yihailan Industry Research Institute, told the reporter of China times.

On the back of a case, the freight rate is high. At present, in order to seize the "prime time" of freight rates, many shipping companies refuse to receive goods in Europe and the United States, but rush back to Asia with empty containers at full speed.

In Lin Shulai's view, the main reason for this situation is that the epidemic has affected the normal flow of Global trade. It is expected that after the epidemic situation is under control, the situation that one box is hard to find in China will gradually disappear.

A box is hard to find

For Mr. Chen, in recent months, joy and depression have coexisted.

"Now my order is three times as much as that of the same period last year. I want to work overtime every day to complete the order. However, with the increase of our orders and the orders of others, the suppliers of spare parts can not supply the goods at all and can only extend the delivery period. The original plan was to send out 50 cabinets at the end of October, but when we arrived at the port, we found that there were not enough cabinets. We had to wait. " Old Chen is full of bitter water.

According to the data released by the National Bureau of statistics, in the first 10 months of this year, China's import and export increased by 1.1%, better than the growth of Global trade. Fu Linghui, a spokesman for the National Bureau of statistics, said that this fully reflects China's relatively large foreign trade potential and strong resilience.

It is understood that due to the paralysis of production capacity in many countries, China, which was the first to get rid of the impact of the epidemic and get production on track, has become the center of the world factory in a short time. Orders from Bangladesh, Vietnam, India and other Southeast Asian countries have been transferred to China. As a result, China's outward shipment volume has increased dramatically.

The data shows that since July, China's container export volume has increased rapidly, and the container throughput has further accelerated since October. The container throughput of China's Coastal Ports Association increased by 10.1% compared with the same period of last year.

But looking at the international market, it is not difficult to find that the global market is seriously uneven.

Not only in the United States, but also in Australia and the United Kingdom, a large number of empty containers have been overstocked. It is estimated that the number of empty containers in Australia alone exceeds 50000.

In Lin Shulai's opinion, at present, the number of ships coming out of China is relatively large, but the number of ships from Europe and the United States is small. In this context, containers from China ship to ship are transported out, but few come back, resulting in a large number of containers piled up in Europe and the United States, while it is difficult for China to get one container.

More than expected trade

The container has not been returned, which brings many troubles to every country.

It is understood that due to the rising epidemic situation in Europe and the United States, there is a shortage of workers, cars and frames in ports, and the rate of punctuality of ships has dropped from 85-90% in June to 56% in September. The average delay of shipping time is five days, and the punctuality rate continues to decline. According to statistics, the waiting time at the West Bank port of the United States is 4-5 days, that of Auckland, New Zealand is more than 10 days, and felisto of the United Kingdom has announced that it will stop collecting empty containers due to overcrowding.

At the same time, the free storage period in foreign ports is much shorter than before. The free storage period that lasted for two weeks or more did not exist, and many ports directly collected rents.

In China, due to the shortage of many port containers, some shipping companies began to raise freight rates substantially and began to charge various surcharges.

On November 6, at Shenzhen port, which is seriously short of containers, the shipping company Wanhai air transportation and other shipping companies began to charge us $500 per box and US $1000 per large container for goods shipped to Southeast Asia, which is equivalent to doubling the freight rate.

At present, the freight rate per large container (40teu) of goods from the United States to Asia is about US $400 to US $500, while that of goods from Asia to the US West exceeds US $3800 and that to the US East exceeds US $4600.

Herbert also announced that he would raise the price of voyages from East Asia (excluding Japan) to the United Kingdom by 5190 US dollars / feu, to the western Mediterranean Sea by 4710 US dollars / feu, and to increase the price of navigation in the northern continent to 4690 dollars / feu. The freight rate of Southeast Asian routes has also broken through 2000 US dollars.

In addition, various congestion surcharges and peak season surcharges have also been levied. Recently, due to the continuous and large-scale congestion in British ports, Mediterranean Shipping announced that it would impose congestion surcharges ranging from $50 to $175 / TEU for all containers exported to the UK; the shipping company Dafei also imposed a peak season surcharge on goods exported from Asia to the Mediterranean and North Africa.

However, this did not have a significant impact on China's exports.

At present, China's import and export has accelerated for four consecutive months. According to the data of the General Administration of customs, China's import and export amount has shown a deep "V" trend since the beginning of the year. Affected by the outbreak of the epidemic from March to may, international trade was weak, and the import and export amount continued to grow negatively. Since June, with the control of the epidemic situation and the resumption of production, the amount of import and export has improved significantly. For the first time in two years, the amount of import and export has been increasing for four consecutive months, and there is an accelerating growth trend.

However, the trend of container throughput and import and export value is highly consistent, which was 24.53 million TEUs in September, with a year-on-year increase of 7.63%, which is also a positive growth for four consecutive months from June to September, with an obvious rebound trend at the bottom.

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