The reservations of boring ships for the transport of merchandise from China to the United States have shot themselves since the countries declared a 90 -day truce in punitive tariffs last weekend, they said operators, generating traffic jams in Chinese ports and factories that could take weeks to solve.
American importers, from sports footwear and sofas to construction supplies and cars, are rushed to introduce their goods before the deadline is fulfilled to restore tariffs, preparing the scenario for disturbances that remember the window of world transport during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The increase in load at the main entrance points of the trade, such as the Yantian port of Shenzhen, which manages more than a quarter of Chinese exports to the United States, has caused the shipowners to rush to coordinate the moorings and adjust the schedules of the ships.
“The lawsuit is so high that we can only attend to customers who have signed long-term contracts with us,” a Hapag-Lloyd porternero operator spokesman told Reuters. “We barely have space for spontaneous reserves.”
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The Vizion container monitoring software supplier said the average reservations for the seven days ended on Wednesday, 277%were shot, at 21,530 units equivalent to 20 feet (TEU), from the average of 5,709 TEU for the week completed on May 5.
Owners of toy factories for Christmas decoration told Reuters that they are reserving previously frozen shipments for US stores, including Walmart.
Lalo, for example, who sells his baby furniture online and through retailers such as Target and Amazon.com, is among the companies that gave the green light to the factories to move their finished orders.
“We had hundreds of thousands of units waiting to be sent,” explains Michael Weider, co -founder of Lalo. “These products can already go to the water.”
“Everyone is very busy from my company, in my friends’ companies,” said Richard Lee, general director of NCL Logistics, in the Shenzhen’s southern southern metropolis. “They are preparing a lot of load, many products, to send them immediately from China to the United States.”
“According to Tsunami?”
The wave of shipments will result in an avalanche of arrivals to the ports of the US west coast in the coming weeks.
Even so, experts in the sector, including the Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles -the American Maritime Port of greater traffic and number 1 in maritime shipments from China -do not foresee a load tsunami of the Covid level. Rather they project a large, but manageable wave.
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The figure is less than half than in April 2024, but it could rise abruptly on June 1 to about $ 6,000 per container if the shipowners approve rates of rates.
In the early days of the pandemic, as now, the charging demand peaks overflowed factories and bornery, putting the supply chains in check.
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Record and retail experts claim that 90 days is not enough time for most factories to serve the new orders.
There are fewer places available on cargo ships because shipowners have been reducing trips and schedules between China and the United States. Now, maritime carriers are “canceling cancellations” of exits, Drewry said.
The demand, however, is remarkably different this time.
The tariffs of Trump’s second mandate have weakened retail sales, housing construction and the manufacture of the United States, key driver of container shipments.
In addition, many US companies are sitting in the accumulated inventory before Trump imposed tariffs on China and other countries. And nobody knows what import tariffs will be when the 90 -day deadline expires in August.
With Reuters information
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