Shipping is overwhelmed! All ports in the western United States are in emergency! Shipping companies refute rumors of suspension of operations

Shipping has been really crowded recently! A number of unfavorable news broke out one after another, and the timeliness and price of shipping are soaring! CCTV Finance reported that the current repeated epidemic may make the global shipping system face the biggest crisis in 65 years!

Currently, dozens of giant cargo ships are waiting to enter the port and unload cargo at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles in the western United States, and the longest waiting period has exceeded 12 days.

Even the sea outside the port was crowded with cargo ships, and the following ships had to anchor farther away from the port and wait.

On August 15 alone, there were more than 60 waiting ships. Not many of these ships were cleared, and on the 16th, 29 more cargo ships were waiting to enter the port. Dozens of ships will arrive in the next few days. According to the person in charge of the Port of Los Angeles, the port is currently seriously overloaded and the congestion is unprecedented.

Because the equipment of the entire port, including cranes, docks and other supporting equipment can no longer match the carrying capacity of today's giant cargo ships, but upgrading the supporting facilities takes a lot of time, the port now has no way to solve the deadlock of cargo ship congestion in a short period of time.

Flexport, an American freight company, also said that the transportation time from Shanghai to Chicago via Los Angeles and Long Beach has doubled from 35 days to about 73 days. As the shipping time is madly extended, the price is also soaring. The shipping price of a 40-foot container from Ningbo Port to Los Angeles has increased from more than US$10,000 at the beginning of the year to more than US$16,000 in early August, and by mid-August it had risen to more than US$20,000! No wonder some people in the industry say that one trip can earn back the entire ship price.

Correspondingly, the shipping terminal price for us sellers has also risen to a high level, almost reaching 20 yuan per kilogram.

But even at this price, there are still people who want to raise the price behind the scenes.

In the past two days, many freight forwarders have revealed that Matson has cancelled its call at Ningbo Port and it may not be resumed until September.

This was after the outbreak of the epidemic at Ningbo Zhoushan Port a week ago. The entire port entered a state of emergency and some docks were closed to stop cargo operations. As a result, there were reports that shipping companies were unable to load and unload cargo. However, the port's announcement showed that ship operations at the closed Meishan Port area had been adjusted to other ports. Now the overall operation of the entire Ningbo Port is stable , and there are no large-scale cancellations of flights due to the epidemic.

Yesterday, Matson officials also came out to refute the rumor, saying that this week's shipping schedule was temporarily cancelled due to normal route adjustments. The subsequent CLX, CLX+ and CCX routes will still call at Ningbo Port as originally planned.

This is most likely a group of people who want to raise the terminal price of ocean freight. They made a big fuss about the temporary cancellation of flights by Matson, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to raise prices and reap profits. In the past, there were many freight forwarders who did this, but the current freight rate is too outrageous. Sellers already find it difficult to accept it, and if it increases a little more, they will be even more resentful, so Matson had to come out to refute the rumor .

The current global ocean freight will remain in such a state of difficulty in getting a box for a long time. Sellers have to accept higher terminal prices when shipping goods by sea, and the timeliness of transportation cannot be guaranteed. No one can be sure whether there will be any problems in the ports in the western United States. In order to ensure the timeliness of warehouse entry and not affect the sales of goods on the shelves, you can try Amazon's official logistics service In-Stock Head Start.

As long as the out-of-stock product has inventory in transit, whether it has entered the warehouse or not, Amazon can display the product as available for sale on the product page in advance, and consumers can place orders and see the estimated delivery time. In this way, even if the shipment is blocked outside the port and cannot enter, it will only affect the estimated delivery time and will not affect the buyer's normal ordering , which greatly reduces the impact of out-of-stock.