Freight Charges Have Surged Recently, Foreign Trade Textile Containers Are Hard To Find.

Like Qiu Zheng, there are countless big and small logistics and freight business owners in these two days, and they are all anxious that the export freight charges will soar.

Freight charges have soared recently.

"At present, such as Europe, South America and other routes, freight rates have reached historical highs."

Lin Xiang, a representative of Taiping shipping company specializing in seagoing business, told reporters in Chongqing.

Take European routes as an example. Last year, when the financial crisis happened, Chongqing's pportation to the European port of Amsterdam had fallen to the bottom of $900, but on the two day, the freight rate has reached 2250-2300 USD / TEUs.

In addition, like the South American route, at the lowest freight rate last year, it was only $1200 / TEUs, and now it has risen to around $5500.

The price surge began at the beginning of this year. According to the monitoring of China international shipping network, the composite index of container shipping price rose to no more than 700 points to the 1600 pass from the beginning of July to the middle of July.

The increase in freight rates is good news for shipping companies.

But the good news of shipping companies may be a misfortune for other companies.

Container is hard to find.

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"Before, we ordered the shipping space for our customers, one week ahead of schedule.

But now we have to order a cabin at least two weeks in advance, a month or even longer on a busy route. "

Qiu Zheng said.

"Not only freight rates are rising, but even containers are hard to find."

The general manager of Maxim Group Import and Export Co., Ltd.

She disclosed that now exported to North America and Europe, the goods often found the shipping space but could not find the box.

A responsible official of export and foreign trade enterprises, who does not want to be named, said that the increase in freight charges will inevitably cause great impact on export profits.

It is said that the average profit level of export enterprises is only 3% to 5%, such as textile, clothing, footwear, toys and other labor-intensive industries. The substantial increase in the price of shipping will directly affect the overall profits of these export enterprises.

The owner of the ship began to add additional charges.

The situation is still getting worse, as the shipowners begin to increase the surcharge for the peak season.

Chen Chang, head of Chongqing APL company, revealed that July, August and September were the traditional peak season for import and export and shipping market. On the two day, the company just started to add the surcharge for the peak season, and the US government added 800-1000 US dollars per box.

In addition, Maersk and other shipping giants also announced in succession that as container containers are in urgent need, they will increase the "peak season surcharge".

The collection standard is $750 for each small cabinet from Asia to northern Europe, plus $1000 for each cabinet, and $1200 for each special cabinet.

China COSCO also announced that it began to increase its "container shortage surcharge" and other peak season costs, resulting in a 30% increase in freight rates than in June this year.

In response, people pointed out that, for the soaring freight rate, Qiu Zheng thought that the retaliatory rise after the financial crisis was mainly: "under the financial crisis, many shipping companies slowed down the speed of purchasing containers and ships, but this year, the volume of exports of goods has increased too fast, and the capacity has been insufficient."

Cost burden, to a certain extent, weaken the market competitiveness of foreign trade enterprises' export commodities.

"Low value-added products, such as mineral powder, whose profits are not high, may have to stop imports and exports in the short term."