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Faced with the severe problem of lack of cabins and containers on a global scale, the crazy and uncertain shipping market is forcing cargo owners to take pioneering measures. In order to strengthen the control of cargo transportation, domestic "foreign traders" can't stand it!

The peak season cargo volume is coming! Domestic cargo owners open routes "chartered ships" to sea

At 8 o'clock in the morning on September 3, the "Yellow Sea Pioneer" vessel sailed from Ningbo Daxie Xinye Wharf, marking the official maiden voyage of the "Ningbo-Los Angeles" direct route jointly created by Yiwu private enterprises. This route is the first route opened by Yiwu Yangxiang International Freight Forwarders and Guolian Logistics and other companies "Group Development", and it is also the first beneficial attempt by Yiwu City to explore the "charter ship" mode of going to sea.

Currently, affected by the epidemic, congestion in foreign ports has become increasingly prominent, and the lack of space and container shortages in the international shipping market has caused continuous increases in freight rates and severely restricted the development of an open economy. "At present, the price of ocean freight has risen by 5-6 times compared with before the epidemic, and there are still cases where reservations are not available for such a high price. It is very stressful for our foreign trade companies and the export rhythm has been disrupted." Huahong Gong Pinzhong, chairman of the holding group, said with emotion.

For this reason, in the context of high ocean freight rates and shortage of maritime resources, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce relies on the system of consignor grouping and gives full play to the advantages of consolidating cargo, and puts forward the idea of "charter ship". The idea is to build an international consignment system. Part. Yiwu makes every effort to build an international consignment system and a trade order fulfillment platform to build an important global small commodity grouping center.

It is reported that this "chartered boat" is expected to take 18 days to reach Los Angeles. The ship is carrying 1,700 TEU containers with a total of more than 10,000 tons of cargo. "Huahong Group alone has more than 40 containers of cargo." Gong Pinzhong said happily. This ship guarantees both space and container, and the price is more affordable.

The person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce stated that in the next step, it will work closely with powerful international shipping companies to further deepen the "charter ship" model and open more international logistics lines.

The major giants follow suit, chartering ships or becoming the general trend? !

In the context of continued tension in the global supply chain, many shippers, in order to ensure the stability of their own cargo transportation, do not hesitate to spend a lot of money on renting boxes and ships to carry out their own transportation. We have previously reported that Home Depot, Amazon, and Wal-Mart have chartered their own boats in response to supply chain crises.

In this regard, some industry experts believe that, on the whole, cargo owners’ intervention in transportation is still an extraordinary means in extraordinary times, but this phenomenon has certain thinking significance for liner companies.

On the surface, the freight rate is going up all the way due to the continuous shortage of capacity, and the liner companies seem to be making a lot of money, but the fragility of the entire supply chain is unobstructed, forcing the cargo owners to have to spend high rents to transport the goods by themselves. .

In the long run, if liner companies want to obtain stable and higher returns, they still need to focus on the improvement of service value. How to optimize the overall route layout, and solve the problems of empty container deployment, providing stable and reliable schedules, and improving end-to-end service levels are the key to stabilizing the supply chain.

Nowadays, the traditional peak season of shipping, coupled with multiple adverse factors such as difficult bookings, serious port congestion, and unstable shipping schedules, will make the shipping situation more tense in the second half of the year.

In the future, it is not ruled out that more shippers will learn to follow suit, and this will become the new normal of the international shipping and logistics industry under the epidemic!