[新聞] 航運相關-Asia-North Europe rates pass $10,000 已刪文
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2.原文內容：
By Mike Wackett 15/12/2020
Record high spot rates from Asia to North Europe and predictions of huge
hikes for annual contract rates could lead to a rush of cancelled orders for
next year.
Retailers in Europe are already nervous about new partial lockdowns stymieing
their sales, and the enormous sea freight rates and surcharges they are being
billed is significantly adding to their concerns.
“We are certainly starting to see customers cancelling, as the rates are
beyond ridiculous,” one source told The Loadstar today.
It appears carriers are now regularly quoting $10,000 per 40ft HC for January
shipments from China to the UK, and another source reported to The Loadstar
today he “had heard of $13,500 being quoted”.
He added: “I can’t wait for the day certain lines are chasing our business
again, and then I will have great pleasure telling them to phone back in 10
years.”
And The Loadstar continues to receive complaints about the myriad extra
charges by carriers on the tradelane, including a ramping-up of cancellation
fees.
One UK forwarder source said his carrier was looking at charging a $1,000
per teu booking cancellation fee, two weeks out from 1 January, despite the
uncertainty of equipment availability.
“That’s $2,000 per feu for doing nothing but reallocating boxes that they
don’t have,” said the irate source.
There are also concerns in the forwarding community that customers will
either refuse, or be unable, to pay all the extra charges being racked up
by the supply chain disruptions.
Some 6,000 teu carried to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge several weeks ago,
due to Ocean Alliance carriers skipping the heavily congested port of
Felixstowe, are finally arriving at the London Thamesport Isle of Grain
general cargo and container facility this week on two feeder vessels.
Communication by the carrier on the relay operation was described by one UK
forwarder dealing with customs clearances as “disgraceful”, and another
told The Loadstar he feared his boxes could be stuck at Thamesport until
after Christmas.
“We have been trying to explain to our customer that it is very difficult
to get transport from Kent to the Midlands at short notice – not that
container haulage isn’t difficult anyway at the moment,” he said.
“I don’t blame them for being angry with us and we have sent a very strong
protest to the line, but they don’t even bother to reply.”
In another instance, eight containers of toys that needed to get to UK
stores pre-Christmas, and were due to be unloaded at Southampton, were
instead unloaded at Dunkirk after the vessel skipped its UK call.
The carrier has advised the forwarder that the transit time for them to be
feedered to Southampton would be eight days.
“It took the British three days to evacuate 500,000 soldiers [from Dunkirk]
in World War II and, 75 years later, it’s taking a shipping line more than
double that to transport eight boxes,” the forwarder told The Loadstar.
The European Shippers’ Council and forwarding association CLECAT have urged
the European Commission to follow the lead of the US Federal Maritime
Commission and step up its scrutiny of carrier practices.
Meanwhile, the Hutchison Ports-owned port of Felixstowe’s weekly operational
update continues to state that it is increasing its labour force by
recruiting 104 additional equipment drivers, plus a number of engineers.
3.心得/評論：
歐洲線 的報價越來越混亂
現在就是有艙就好
天價不知道會喊到什麼時候
航運的合理本益比 一般大概是6-8
不過如果未來一年經濟大幅成長
合理的本益比 市場不知道會給到多少
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