This year is a special year. The covid-19 is sweep the world. At this moment, there are still many countries in high-risk situations. Since August, the transportation demand of China’s routes has been strong. Shipping Space was over-booked. Freight rates have also risen sharply. Lack of containers more severe. Limits to a certain extent liner companies to market delivery capacity. More and more countries have been “closed” for the second time, and the ports of many countries are full of containers. Lack of container, no shipping space is available. Because the shipping space is very tight on the planned vessel, our container has to be moved to the next available vessel. skip over. Shipping costs skyrocketing, Foreign trade people are under unprecedented pressure.

Last week, affected by the impact of the covid-19, China’s export container transportation market continued high prices.The freight rates of many ocean routes increased to varying degrees, and the composite index continued to rise. The data shows that the European freight rate has increased by 170% year-on-year, and the Mediterranean route freight rate has increased by 203% year-on-year. Is hard to find one container of shipping, and prices have soared nearly three times. In addition, as the epidemic in the United States becomes more serious and air transportation routes are blocked, shipping prices will continue to rise. With strong shipping demand and a large shortage of containers, shippers are facing soaring container freight and surcharges, but this is just the beginning, and the market may become more chaotic in the next month.

On the return route, the situation of European exporters can be said to be worse; it is reported that they cannot secure bookings to Asia before January. As the port guarantees the health of port workers in accordance with national agreements, many containers have been piled up in destinations in Europe and North America for several months, but there is not enough manpower to clear the backlog of ports. According to data, the monthly trading volume in the United States has decreased from 2.1 million TEUs in September to approximately 2 million TEUs in October, november is further reduced to 1.7 million TEUs. With the spread of the epidemic on a global scale, the second outbreak of the global epidemic has once again affected the global cargo volume and cargo flow, and caused serious interference to the international container supply chain.

ONE also experienced ship delays, causing serious congestion at the terminal. The reliability of ships is also declining, which has a lot to do with the congestion of Asian ports. “In many basic ports in China, if not most, equipment is scarce. In some ports, such as Xingang, factories may be drying containers to Qingdao. Unfortunately, Qingdao also faces the same problem.” The availability of containers is also affected. After a major blow, some ships were not fully loaded when they left China, not because of insufficient cargo, but because the number of available containers was still unstable. The future prospects are uncertain. This situation will only get worse before the holidays, and it is likely to continue until the Chinese New Year (this year’s Spring Festival has already arrived in February).