Wenzhou shoe export market picks up the sea freight business

With the gradual recovery of Wenzhou's foreign trade situation, it has also led to the development of the shipping market business. Recently, a shoe company in Wenzhou had a shipment to be shipped to the European Union. However, it received news that the shipping company had to postpone the shipment. The reason was that the loading container was in an emergency and was gone. It is reported that this phenomenon began in April this year.

After a long period of long period of foreign trade downturn, the shipping market has seen a very encouraging situation. In the first half of the year, the national container throughput reached 6870.18 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 22.3%. By the end of June, only China-Europe route input capacity had reached 300 vessels totaling 2.25 million TEUs, a substantial increase of nearly 10% from the beginning of the year.

The recovery of cargo volume was contrary to expectations of shipping companies. In June, shipping companies encountered the embarrassing situation of “with ships, goods in stock, and no boxes”. Lin Tong, the deputy general manager of Zhejiang Ocean International Wenzhou International Freight Co., Ltd., stated that during the financial crisis, many shipping companies began idle capacity, retired empty containers, and a large number of empty containers were stranded abroad due to huge transportation costs. In the yard. Therefore, it has led to the current situation of "a box is hard to find" for containers.

"Over two days, the sea freight will have to rise again. Many shippers are anxious to make bookings and hope that they will try to ship the goods before the price increases." Mr. Chen, a freight forwarding company official, said that since the beginning of this year, shipping costs have been rising, including fuel oil. Surcharges, peak season surcharges, etc. Wenzhou Zhonghai Shipping Agency Co., Ltd. Li Yi stated that due to the tight transportation capacity of some routes, prices may rise in the near future, and some routes even show a one-week increase in prices.

"The company's container shortage was mainly due to the partial withdrawal of leases from empty containers last year. However, with the recent recovery in volume, the company has eased the use of containers by rational deployment of containers." Lin Xiaohua, staff member of Cleveland Shipping Co., Ltd. Wenzhou Office, told reporters In June and July of previous years, it was also the peak season, but this year's volume recovery was particularly strong.

Li Haijun of the International Trade Department of Zhejiang Aokang Shoes Co., Ltd. stated that shipping companies are all designated by customers. When shipping is tight, basically large customers will not be affected by shipments, and some small customers may be delayed due to container problems. Shipped.

Wu Jiansheng, deputy director of the Port Management Department of Wenzhou Port and Shipping Administration, stated that more than 90% of Wenzhou's export goods are first delivered to Ningbo Port and Shanghai Port by rail, road, and sea, and then left the country.

Assistant Manager of Zhejiang Sinotrans’s Wenzhou Branch, Cai Wei, said that the company’s shipments have increased by 10% year-on-year this year. In August, the freight rate of each large cabinet of the US line has increased from more than 1,000 US dollars last year to more than 3,000 US dollars now. The Middle East rose even ten times.