Detonation tank! The price of one container of shipping containers has soared nearly three times

Detonation tank! Shipping container a container is hard to get, the price rises nearly 3 times! What happened?

Due to the impact of THE COVID-19 epidemic, international logistics capacity has declined, leading to a sharp rise in container ship freight, and the freight rate of the Us-West line has increased nearly three times since the beginning of the year. Under the background of tight transport capacity, the industry frequently has the phenomenon of dumping cabinets.

Shipping prices soared nearly three times frequently burst the tank dump

Wu haiquan's company is mainly engaged in the production and sales of smart headphones, smart audio and other products. More than 95% of the products are exported, of which sea transportation accounts for more than 90%. He told reporters that since May this year, the price of shipping has been rising, and even many routes are "hard to find in one container" phenomenon, which has caused great pressure on the logistics cost of enterprises.

Among international shipping routes, sino-us routes saw the biggest increase. As of October 9, the freight rates for exports from Shanghai to the WESTERN United States and east United States basic port market were $3,848 and $4,622 per container respectively. The freight rates for the Western United States route were the highest since the launch of 2009, and the price per container for the Western United States was nearly three times higher than the price of $1,361 in early March. The person in charge of a logistics enterprise tells a reporter, besides sea freight price rises sharply, it is difficult to book ark, when freight peak season, shipping company cabin is limited, popular route still is easy to appear explode the phenomenon that hold jilt ark.

Zhang Peipei, General manager of Shenzhen Didi Logistics Technology Co., LTD. : For shipping companies, shipping space is pre-sold, and they may sell more shipping space than they can carry. Because the shipping company also needs to avoid some temporary cancellation of shipping space, if the booking space is not balanced with the actual load, it will choose to lose some shipping space.

The Index, which reflects the spot market, reached 1,438.22 points as of Oct. 9, the highest level since September 2012, according to the Index released by the Shanghai Shipping Exchange.

A relevant person in charge of a container manufacturing enterprise told reporters that the shortage of shipping capacity is reflected not only in the freight rate, but also in the matching containers. From the perspective of their container sales, the whole growth rate in July and August is very fast, and the production of containers has been scheduled to the end of the year.

A recovery in foreign trade is driving up shipping prices because of a shortage of export capacity

The outbreak of coVID-19 overseas in the second quarter led to production stagnation, which increased China's share of global exports. The rapid growth of shipping prices in the US is mainly due to the gap between the supply and demand of shipping. The rising shipping prices also made the concentrated shipping sector of major shipping companies very profitable.

Industry insiders said that this year, due to the impact of the epidemic, most shipping companies had pessimistic expectations of the international shipping situation, so they reduced capacity. Under the background of the domestic epidemic under control, China's exports have shown strong resilience. Data from the General Administration of Customs showed that China's exports have been growing for six consecutive months since April. In the first three quarters, the accumulative growth rate was 1.8%, beating the consensus market expectation. In September, the total value of exports was 1.661.97 billion yuan, up 8.7% year on year. At present, high freight rates, booking space is difficult, mainly because shipping companies capacity, it is difficult to meet the sudden increase in shipping demand.

Lin Qingwen, Managing Director of Shenzhen Yantian International Container Terminal Co., LTD. : After the epidemic was brought under control, the resumption of work and production also boosted the growth of foreign trade for two reasons. First, many foreign trade orders were made up; Second, cross-border e-commerce has brought new types of goods. Yantian International throughput reached 1.42 million teU last month, which should be the highest number for a single port in the world.

Alibaba international standing, managing Zhang Kuo tells a reporter, because the outbreak has not been fully control in foreign countries, so these countries behind China in return to work and production aspects, China after a large number of exports to the local, due to the other party time longer stranded in the port of discharge, causing the speed appears imbalance and obstruction of imports and exports, more lead to insufficient capacity of the shipping market.

The personage inside course of study says, even though China has now fully resume work and production, the European and American countries also restart the economic activity, but the outbreak of a big blow to the container shipping company, to restore to its normal state of transportation need time, plus the consumption peak season is coming, so far, in the following a period of time, shipping prices stay high level is still a big probability event.

The increase of shipping price and freight volume has made the concentrated transport sector of major shipping companies make a lot of money. Data shows that in the second quarter of this year, the year-on-year growth rates of net profits of Zhongyuanhai Holding co., LTD., China Merchants Shipping Co., LTD., Zhongyuanhai Energy Co., LTD., China Merchants South Oil Co., Ltd. and Zhongyuanhai Development Co., Ltd. are 53.79%, 520.93%, 5481.39%, 159.56% and 66.51% respectively.

Cross-border e-commerce into the peak season to deal with the maritime price increase

Shipping is an important channel for cross-border e-commerce shipments. Now that the stocking season has arrived in the United States, foreign users have begun to purchase electronic consumer goods, Thanksgiving, Christmas and other supplies in advance. In the face of unstable shipping logistics, what have cross-border e-commerce enterprises done to prepare?

Yuan Hui, chairman of Shenzhen Haibo Technology Co., LTD., has been engaged in cross-border e-commerce for many years. He told reporters that with the coming of Halloween and other festivals in Europe and the United States, cross-border e-commerce industry has entered the peak season.

The import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce increased rather than decreased, playing a positive role in foreign trade enterprises' response to the epidemic and becoming an important force in stabilizing foreign trade. Data from the General Administration of Customs shows that in the first three quarters of this year, China's import and export through the cross-border e-commerce management platform of customs reached 187.39 billion yuan, up 52.8% year on year. As an important way for cross-border e-commerce enterprises to ship goods, the price fluctuation also affects their hearts.

Zhang Kuo, General Manager of Alibaba International Station: Now we have developed many new products with many shipping companies, including Yantian Port, such as Sino-American Clipper Ship. It turns out that because a lot of planes are out of service, we can now go from China to the United States in 12 days by clipper ship, which is actually quite convenient for many small and medium-sized overseas enterprises in 12 days, and the price is only about one third of that by air.

The person in charge of an enterprise told reporters that considering the instability of the shipping logistics in this year's peak season, he tried his best to avoid betting all the goods transport on a logistics company, ready to do the sea, land and air three aspects of standby scheme.