Ports brace for post-Suez onslaught as ships begin arriving
With bottle-necked ships making their way to ports in the wake of the Suez Canal incident, cumulative delays for cargo ships are at 1,017 days, threatening to swamp ports with bottle-necked cargo for weeks to come. With more than 1.9 million TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) of capacity involved in the incident, supply chain visibility company project44 is warning shippers that their headaches are not yet over.
At major ports such as Singapore, more than 370,000 TEU of capacity are en route to the port, where 83 vessels representing 299,310 TEU were already at the port or anchored and waiting to unload as of April 12.
A huge pile up of fish cargoes at a Chinese port risks impacting shipments of frozen food across the country and beyond.
Hundreds of containers are being held up in Dalian, a major port for seafood imports, as local authorities test the fish for the coronavirus before allowing them to clear customs, according to several freight forwarders, consultants and shipping companies. That’s leading to scant availability of electric outlets to keep refrigerated containers, known as reefers, cold.
The shortage of plug points and dwindling space at the port has prompted shipping liners to cancel new reefer bookings into Dalian, and the congestion is now spreading to other refrigerated items like fruit and dumplings. It also means frozen containers are being diverted to other ports in China, leading to bottlenecks in Shanghai and Qingdao too.
Frozen Fish Pileup in China Threatens Global Supply Chains
Bloomberg 1/27/2021
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A huge pile up of fish cargoes at a Chinese port risks impacting shipments of frozen food across the country and beyond.
Hundreds of containers are being held up in Dalian, a major port for seafood imports, as local authorities test the fish for the coronavirus before allowing them to clear customs, according to several freight forwarders, consultants and shipping companies. That’s leading to scant availability of electric outlets to keep refrigerated containers, known as reefers, cold.
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James Baker | 2021-01-22 13:08:42.0
High levels of demand are causing port congestion and increased cargo delays, with rollovers by major carriers rising from 35% in November to 37% in December
Many key transhipment ports and the leading container lines are continuing to see elevated levels of cargo rollovers, according to research from Ocean Insights.
Cargo levels remain far above seasonal averages, causing further delays to cargo, which is increasingly lying stranded at the quayside.
“Of the 20 global ports, 75% saw an increase in the levels of rollover cargo in December compared with the previous month,” said Josh Brazil, the analyst company’s chief operations officer.