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recently, international shipping prices soared again on the basis of the high level at the beginning of the year, and the prices of some routes to North America and Europe nearly doubled in just a few months. On August 25, the reporter learned from the provincial foreign trade service center that based on the application scenario of International containers launched in early April, the Provincial Department of Commerce collected the container needs of foreign trade enterprises, docked shipping companies in advance and introduced resources, promoting the direct connection between 1580 backbone foreign trade enterprises and shipping companies in the province Then reach cooperation. This year, Ningbo Zhoushan port has completed a container throughput of 16.07 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 21.3%
"this round of shipping price rise again is still affected by the continuous global epidemic." According to the relevant person in charge of COSCO Shipping Group, due to the decline of operation efficiency and serious congestion at major overseas ports, the loss of global effective capacity reached more than 20%, resulting in the high freight rate. Especially after the Suez Canal incident, the tension of international shipping prices has become more prominent. Some enterprises reported that the freight rate of North American routes to Chicago rose from $12000 a container in early April to $22800 recently, and many routes in Europe also experienced similar increases
"in view of the shortage of international shipping capacity, we collect the container demand of foreign trade enterprises in advance and promote shipping companies and freight forwarders to arrange transportation capacity in advance." Zhou Jianhua, director of the provincial foreign trade service center, said that in the past, the container demand of foreign trade enterprises was relatively scattered, and it was difficult for shipping companies to temporarily allocate resources. In this regard, they launched the container one thing application scenario, relying on the functions of "I want container", "I want shipping" and "I want service" of the platform, collected the first-hand container needs of foreign trade enterprises, and fed back the demands to shipping companies and freight forwarding enterprises one to two months in advance. Up to now, the platform has summarized the demand of about 188100 containers from more than 50000 enterprises
according to the collected enterprise demands, the provincial commerce department, together with the Provincial Department of transportation and the provincial harbor group, has made every effort to increase the transportation capacity. In Yinzhou, the local commerce department took the initiative to connect with the local leading shipping and logistics enterprises and opened the first "Yinmao Los Angeles" China US e-commerce express route. At that time, Ningbo xishida import and Export Co., Ltd., which failed to book boxes everywhere, suddenly got six shipping spaces and transported a batch of products urgently needed to be delivered to the United States, avoiding breach of contract. In the first half of this year, Ningbo Zhoushan port opened 18 new foreign trade routes, including 8 ocean trunk lines, and the total number of routes increased to 272
in addition to online docking, the provincial commerce department organizes foreign trade enterprises and shipping companies "face-to-face" offline. "Relying on the offline docking meeting, we have directly reached a cooperation agreement with the liner company." Xu Jinying, the relevant person in charge of Zhejiang Dabang electric tools Co., Ltd., told reporters that in the past, most foreign trade companies ordered containers from freight forwarders. Now they have directly signed a "volume and price mutual insurance" cooperation agreement with shipping companies for 150 containers a year. Due to the early signing, each container is five or six thousand dollars cheaper than the market price. It is reported that under the promotion of the provincial commerce department, 1580 key foreign trade enterprises such as Juhua, Sanhua and tepson signed cooperation agreements in the form of "mutual guarantee of volume and price", and the average contract freight rate was reduced by at least 30%
increase the supply of shipping space on one hand and solve the problem of "one container is difficult to find" on the other hand. It is understood that from March to may, the business departments of all parts of our province successively issued relevant policies to promote the transportation of empty containers and alleviate the problem of enterprise cabin containers. As of August 15, Ningbo Zhoushan port had transferred 4.755 million TEUs of overseas empty containers this year, a year-on-year increase of 31.7%. At present, the number of empty containers in the storage yard inside and outside Ningbo Zhoushan port is stable at more than 300000 TEUs per day