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Let Proship.vn find out how the current situation of empty container is missing? What are the solutions, overcoming containers? Difficulties for businesses before the situation of empty contacts? Through this, the shippers also saw the serious consequences of the prolonged container shortage.
The current situation of empty container deficiency
It can be said that global trade obstacles have come for a while, causing an empty container shortage, pushing shot rates increasing by an average of about 30% in recent weeks and expected to continue increasing.
At the end of the year, it is usually the peak of the scarcity of empty containers, especially in 2020, due to the influence of CIVI-19 epidemic, changing the import and export balance, making the container shortage more complicated.
According to the survey of VLA, the difficulty of the enterprise about the actual situation of empty container shortage in each link in operating with the shipping company as follows: The business department accounts for 17%, the container delivery in Depot accounts for 40%and the booking department accounts for 43%.
In addition, many businesses believe that the difficulty in the transport route is mainly through Asian and American areas. VLA said that the lack of empty containers due to the end of the year is the peak season of exports, in addition to Vietnam as a trade country. Not only due to the influence of container delivery in Depot, the empty container control of Depot shipping company has not also caused a shortage of containers in Vietnam.
Mr. Le Kim Cuong-Deputy Director of Tan Cang Logistics Service Center (SNPL) said: "The main cause of empty container shortage is due to the outbreak of CIVI-19 pandemic, especially in the peak period of May and September."
Causes and consequences of empty containers
Let's find out the causes and consequences of the lack of empty containers in logistics:
Causes of empty container deficiency
Container shortage may be due to many reasons such as:
- Bad weather:
Abnormal weather in major ports like China, Malaysia and Singapore also contributes to delaying container handling and transportation.
- Global supply chain disorder:
Pandemic Covid-19 and other factors such as economic fluctuations, geopolitical conflicts interrupting container transportation and rotation around the globe.
- Slow container rotation:
Containers are stuck in ports or on transport routes longer than expected, reducing the rotation speed and causing local shortage.
- Increase shipping demand:
The demand for freight increases, especially from large markets like China, causing the number of empty containers to be short of, especially in export ports.
- High shipping costs:
Due to container deficiency, sea freight rates soared to affect logistics and consumers.
- Global supply chain disorder:
The empty container deficiency causes serious disorders for the global supply chain in many aspects, creating a domino effect spread from manufacturers to consumers.
Consequences of empty container deficiency
Lack of empty contacts can cause:
- Affect the supply chain:
Many businesses cannot transport goods on time, causing delays in delivery, affecting production and business.
- Impact on consumers:
The price of goods may increase due to high transportation costs, affecting the purchasing power of consumers.
- Fierce competition:
Businesses must compete to get containers, especially small and medium -sized businesses.
- Increase logistics costs:
Enterprises are subject to higher shipping costs due to increased rates, reducing profits and increasing product costs.
Export enterprises have difficulty due to the lack of empty containers
According to the survey results of the Vietnam Logistics Service Business Association (VLA), up to 40% of businesses said it was difficult to deliver empty containers in the container gathering places and when the goods owners were received, they were notified. Meanwhile, 43% of enterprises said the reservation department with a shipping lease leasing empty container exceeded the number of permissible numbers and 17% because the business department has not accessed hollow container rental from the shipping company.
Many other exporters also fall into the situation of "bad crying and laughing" when orders increased but could not deliver. The representative of Seaspimex Company said that the time of Covid-19 translation, unable to export goods to the business, tried to maintain operations in the hope that when temporarily settled, it could promote exports. But the order has just returned, it is entangled immediately in transportation.
Many other businesses also shared, never the situation of serious empty container shortage like now. Businesses have to win each other to have containers to pack exports between shipping lines for continuous freight raising. The price changes day by day, maybe even doubling in just a week and there is no empty container to pack. If continued, Vietnamese enterprises cannot be exported, while this is the time to accelerate exports to improve revenue for the whole year.
At this time, the exporting enterprise can only choose the price of the shipping company and then wait in line to have a container to pack or stop exporting, but it is almost impossible to negotiate the price. This situation will greatly affect the circulation of goods and export turnover.
Solutions to overcome empty container deficiency
To solve the difficulties due to the current container lack of containers, SNPL has had specific and timely solutions. Tan Cang focuses on infrastructure investment, enhances resources to enhance the quality of container transportation services, shorten container cycling time.
Also in the past year, SNPL has successfully implemented the process of renovating ICD Long Binh port, from October 2019 until now SNPL has transferred more than 3,000 import -export containers via ICD Long Binh to Cai Mep port. In the coming time, SNPL will continue to actively promote the attractiveness and empty transport between Cai Mep port and ICD Tan Cang Long Binh as well as at other ICDs such as tsunami, Nhon Trach, Hiep Phuoc, ...
Some suggestions to overcome the shortage of empty containers is to increase the use of new facilities, in any area, take the initiative to take containers of that area to avoid congestion and shortage when focusing only on one place. At the same time, businesses need to strengthen the mechanism to promote delivery and reward mechanism in the use of containers.
Proship Liigistics has updated the shortage of empty containers in logistics today for import -export enterprises to timely grasp the situation. Lack of containers due to many reasons, serious consequences, it is necessary to have solutions as soon as possible ... Any questions, contact 0909 344 247 for advice, quotation of dry, dry and cost -effective container transport service.
