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Not only LA / LB port, but also Singapore port has ushered in a congestion crisis, with freight rate soaring.

Time:2021-12-30 Publisher:Kevin Num:5742

Recently, with the spread of the mutant virus Omicron, many countries have rebounded in varying degrees. This also further increases the degree of port congestion.

At present, the most congested port is LA / lb port in the United States. Of course, port congestion in other countries is also very serious. For example, Singapore port.

According to relevant reports, due to the sudden Omicron virus, the congestion of the port is also increasing. The waiting time of the ship here is nearly 10 days.

To this end, the port authority of Singapore and some logistics companies have taken a variety of measures to alleviate congestion. A Singapore logistics company said that the situation in the shipping market this year is very rare, and port congestion has had a great impact on our business.

The most intuitive impact is that the freight price has become expensive, and the waiting time of ships has also increased. It is understood that the original waiting time of the ship was about three days, but now it takes nearly ten days. The freight is 3-5 times higher than the original price.

Some experts said that with the serious rebound of the epidemic, labor has become the most needed resource at present. Because in order to prevent epidemic, the port has to strengthen epidemic prevention measures, which needs to reduce the use of labor, resulting in a significant decline in cleaning efficiency.

For some shipping companies, in order not to waste a lot of transport capacity waiting, they will step up the deployment of ships and even choose empty containers to return to the port.

The CEO of Singapore Taiping shipping said that the shipping company had thought about filling the ship with empty containers, and then starting from Africa and returning to Singapore without any stopover. This can shorten the waiting time and relieve the pressure on the port to a certain extent.

In order to improve the work efficiency of the port, the port authority of Singapore has added 20% port staff to make the port work 24 hours as much as possible. However, Singapore's throughput this year has indeed increased significantly compared with last year.

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