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"One box is hard to find" and freight rates have risen sharply

Qingdao, Shandong: "One Box Is Hard to Find" Companies Facing Logistics Difficulties

Qingdao, Shandong: "One Box Is Hard to Find" Companies Facing Logistics Difficulties

Pingdu City is a domestic production base for false eyelashes.

Although there are continuous orders from Europe and the United States, companies have to suspend orders in the face of tight shipping spaces and high freight rates.

Leng Sumei, head of a false eyelash production enterprise in Qingdao, Shandong:

Rising prices have made foreign trade companies overwhelmed, and freight forwarders are also busy

Since April this year, the container capacity of international routes has been in short supply, and the freight rate has increased by about five times compared with the same period in 2019.

Dong Chengwen, manager of the commerce department of an international freight forwarding company: If you want to book cargo, you basically need to be about one month in advance

Customs statistics show that the total value of China's import and export of goods in the first half of the year exceeded 18.

Major destination ports in North America and Europe have been hit hard by the epidemic, and the turnover efficiency has decreased, which has also exacerbated the difficulty of finding a container in domestic shipping.

Zeng Yitang, chief representative of an international freight forwarding company in North China:

Qingdao, Shandong: Railway consolidation becomes a new choice for sea transportation, tight supply and demand or will continue

Qingdao, Shandong: Railway consolidation becomes a new choice for sea transportation, tight supply and demand or will continue

On the one hand, the company's strong orders and production capacity, on the other hand, is the shortage and expensive space, transnational logistics has become a resistance to the development of foreign trade enterprises

In the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, freight vehicles are busy moving in and out

Rail container transportation has become the first choice of many cargo owners

Lu Shusheng, marketing manager of the domestic transportation department of a logistics company in Qingdao, Shandong: On the basis of maintaining the original transportation volume, customers mainly increased the delivery of export goods.

Lu Shusheng, marketing manager of the domestic transportation department of a logistics company in Qingdao, Shandong:

Before the epidemic, the price advantage of railway container transportation was not obvious compared with sea transportation

In order to alleviate the shortage of container capacity, the Ministry of Transport recently stated that it will work with the Ministry of Commerce and other departments to increase the supply of capacity and improve the efficiency of container turnover