The government has taken action to rectify the chaos in ocean shipping prices! Primeday goods have a chance to benefit from it

Recently, multiple departments in Ningbo have jointly launched an attack to rectify the phenomenon of inflated shipping prices! The shipping prices that have been high for many years are finally going to loosen up!

According to the content, this time, there will be concentrated investigations and punishments on illegal activities of shipping companies, shipping agents, freight forwarders, storage yards and customs brokers, including price opacity, price fraud, collusion to raise prices and other illegal activities, which are the focus of screening.

We have previously exposed a very outrageous incident to everyone, that is, the logistics dealer *xing was reported to have a large number of cargoes piled up in a closed area for several months without any movement. The authorities did not arrange any pick-up and unloading work, claiming that there was an urgent shortage of unloading staff and truck drivers.

The containers are deliberately piled up and not processed, and there is a shortage of drivers and unloading personnel, so they are deliberately not recruited in large numbers. Even if Biden, the US government, has ordered the ports to work 24 hours a day, the shipping companies are still holding back their processing capacity and not opening it up. This is to deliberately create congestion and a shortage of shipping capacity, thereby controlling the rise in shipping prices!

However, this situation has almost been reversed this year. As the traditional cross-border off-season, people have been shipping less after the Chinese New Year. In addition, the traffic of the overall e-commerce platforms led by Amazon has been declining since the beginning of this year. Amazon itself lost more than 1 billion yuan in the first quarter. Third-party sellers stocked up according to conservative strategies, and the shipment volume declined rapidly. No matter how much the shipping companies held back, they could not bear the freight rates. After the Chinese New Year, sea freight prices began to fall all the way.

Even so, it has not returned to a more reasonable level. The state's crackdown on the chaotic charging of shipping companies shows that there are still many pitfalls of collusion in raising prices in this link. The profits of shipping companies are still abnormally high, and the phenomenon of raising freight rates needs to be strictly investigated. Ningbo took the lead in this rectification. Our cross-border sellers will have a good shipping opportunity in the future, just in time for Primeday.

Although the date of this year's Primeday has not been officially announced, it has been guessed based on various time nodes. It will be held around mid-July. After two years of unusual Primeday, we have finally returned to this familiar node.

At present, the registration for Prime Day LD activities on several sites has been closed, and the schedule will not be released until at least June. May and June are the most important time for everyone to prepare for Prime Day. Everyone needs to estimate the order volume before and after Prime Day based on the daily order performance of their products and then prepare for it. Here I suggest that everyone take into account the frequent capacity collapse after Prime Day. At that time, the time to enter the warehouse and put on the shelf will be extended. If there is a shortage of stock after Prime Day, it will still cause great damage to the weight of the listing.

After deciding on the shipment quantity, this wave of shipments should be sent out. While the country is still rectifying the phenomenon of shipping companies charging random fees, consult various companies to choose logistics. Note that goods for Primeday in the US site must be warehoused before June 20, and be sure to communicate with the freight forwarder about timeliness and contingency plans for unexpected situations.

This wave of Primeday is still relatively important. After all, both sellers and Amazon encountered some bottlenecks in the first half of the year. This year's Membership Day will expose many problems. After the epidemic dividends recede, where should Amazon and sellers go? This Membership Day is a big test.