Xinjiang Cotton: Railway Transportation Is Favored And Automobile Transportation Charges Continue To Rise

According to the feedback from the cotton regulatory depots in Urumqi, Aksu, Korla and other places, since the middle of November, the volume of cotton transported out of Xinjiang by steam has fallen again, and the trend of cotton lint (civilian cotton) has continued to reach the top and fall down. On the one hand, traders and futures companies have no strong willingness to move their stocks and sell to the mainland in the short term. On the other hand, the "rail transit" one-stop service for Xinjiang cotton export is favored by Xinjiang cotton processing enterprises and traders. In addition, with the return of Xinguan epidemic in autumn and winter, transportation departments in various regions strengthen prevention and control, and the advantages of "low price, safety and high efficiency" of railway transportation are obvious.

In addition, a regulatory Library in Aksu said that the comprehensive cost of hand picking cotton was high, and the color grade of flowers in the middle and late stages was declining. Most traders required the seller to bear the two-month delivery fee, which was also an important factor in the continuous cooling of road shipping activity. From the results of public inspection, the proportion of "double 28, double 29" of machine picked cotton in southern Xinjiang was also lower than expected, and the sharp slowdown in sales progress of low and medium quality machine picked cotton was also the reason for the low prosperity of automobile transportation. However, in contrast to the weakness of highway transportation, the transportation price rose slightly again after a short period of stabilization. The freight of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other key flows generally reported an increase of 20-30 yuan / ton, and the "return car" was not easy to deploy.

According to a trader in Heze, Shandong Province, there are three factors contributing to the rise in the automobile transportation fees of cotton out of Xinjiang: first, there are a large range of rainy and snowy weather in Xinjiang recently, and the highway transportation time is long and dangerous; second, affected by the rise of international crude oil futures, China's gasoline and diesel prices have increased; and; Third, the situation of epidemic prevention and control is once again grim, highway transportation expenditure has increased, and logistics companies, drivers and other concerns have increased.