Long queues of ships at global ports, freight costs of 30,000 yuan rose to 30,000 U.S. dollars, higher than the value of goods, foreign trade enterprises cry out that they can not afford to eat

With a sharp rise in the volume of domestic exports, the demand of foreign trade enterprises for shipping has surged. However, due to the slow recovery of the international maritime supply chain, maritime capacity continues to be tight, the maritime market "a cabin is difficult to find", "a box is difficult to find" phenomenon occurs frequently, foreign trade export enterprises into the embarrassing situation of having freight does not go out.

Global freight market tension, supply chain congestion led to long queues of ships outside the major ports of different routes, especially from Asia to the United States and Europe, making a large part of the global maritime cargo stranded in ships waiting for berthing.

According to the latest data released by Vessels Value yesterday, a total of 376 ships, totaling 2.4 million TEU containers, are currently stacked up near global ports, most of which are waiting off the coasts of China and the U.S. Shippers can't receive their cargo, and capacity is heavily occupied.

Foreign trade export enterprises are facing difficulties in booking space at the same time, but also need to face the rising sea freight. A number of foreign trade companies said that the continued rise in sea freight is constantly eating into the profits of enterprises, so that some enterprises face the risk of loss, which small and medium-sized enterprises are more affected, especially some of the production of low value of exports, the price of sea freight even more than the value of the product.

CCTV financial report: every year in August, is the peak export season of foreign trade enterprises. But this year, Mr. Cao, who has been doing export business, is not happy, because he can't book a space, after the customer's scheduled goods are produced, the backlog is not shipped out in the warehouse for several months.

Cao Zhifeng, CEO of a technology industrial company in Shenzhen, said, "This means that the factory can't get the payment from the guests in time, resulting in the factory's current cash flow is very tight."

Mr. Cao told reporters that if the goods are still not shipped out by September 25, they will probably not be able to make it to this year's Christmas sales.

Shenzhen a technology industry limited company shipping Cao Jiaozhen said: "June 25 factory shipments, the shipping company said the departure time for July 28, a month's time, the goods are placed in China's Yantian port, which means that the ship receiving the goods did not arrive at the Chinese port according to the expected time, still parked in the United States."

Long queues of ships in global ports, freight costs 30,000 yuan rose to 30,000 U.S. dollars, higher than the value of the goods, foreign trade enterprises cry out that they can not afford to eat

Europe and the United States market shipments increased sharply, coupled with unstable shipping schedules and special control measures implemented by the terminal, resulting in the world's largest single container terminal - Shenzhen Yantian Port, the export of heavy containers also field a hard to find, August 21, the day, 11,000 into the port reservation number within half an hour was snatched up.

Container trailer driver Mr. Su said: "every morning at 8 o'clock to start booking, 10,000 cabinets basic half an hour was about finished, basically is to mention a number also a number, some time ago about 4 days are not about the number, the goods can only find a place to store up."

According to customs statistics, China's foreign trade monthly import and export has been maintained for 14 consecutive months of positive growth. Industry insiders believe that the increasing demand for foreign trade exports, but the logistics capacity is limited, or will further increase the "a cabin hard to find" "a box hard to find" situation.

Long queues of ships in global ports, freight costs 30,000 yuan to 30,000 U.S. dollars, higher than the value of the goods, foreign trade enterprises cry out that they can not afford

Cao Pengfei, deputy director of Shenzhen Customs statistics and analysis: the peak export season from the second half of last year continued into this year, Shenzhen import and export value since November last year, nine consecutive months of year-on-year growth, the first seven months of this year, Shenzhen export value of 1.01 trillion yuan.

In addition to the booking of space and containers, more foreign trade enterprises headache is the continuous rise of shipping prices. 27 August global container freight index data show that the United States and China shipping costs in the short term after the fall, once again exceeded the $ 20,000 mark, high shipping prices, so many foreign trade export enterprises dilemma.

In Shenzhen, an international freight forwarding company, Zhang Peipei is real-time monitoring of shipping prices, the continued rise in shipping prices, so they are also facing the risk of losses.

Shanghai Shipping Exchange published export container freight index shows that on September 1, on behalf of the settlement price of the China Export Container Index (CCFI) closed at 3079.04 points, a record high, compared to last week rose 31.72 points, or 1%, compared to last year's low of 834 points, a 269% jump.

Ltd. shipping Cao Jiaozhen: the second half of 2020, freight costs a day a price, before shipping a cabinet to Amazon, the full price is basically 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan or so, now to 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan.

A number of foreign trade companies said that the continued rise in the price of shipping is constantly eating into the profits of enterprises. But as export-oriented enterprises, to retain market share, they can only sacrifice profits and grit their teeth.

Ltd. CEO Cao Zhifeng: Now a container to Europe and the United States of the sea freight, has reached between 150,000 to 200,000 yuan. Compared with the previous, freight costs are 5 times to 10 times higher, such high freight costs on average to each product, will probably increase the cost of more than 200 yuan, and sometimes may even be as high as 400 to 500 yuan, basically diluted the enterprise 30% to 50% of the profits.

Among them, small and medium-sized enterprises suffer the most, especially some export enterprises producing low value of goods, the price of shipping costs even exceed the value of the product. Some enterprises lose money but barely maintain operations, some can only exit the market. Large enterprises have strong bargaining power, and shipping companies signed a long-term agreement, the impact is relatively small.