The price hit a new all-time high! But the owner doesn't look at the price, "place an order" first! Air and sea transport are "hard to find"! what happened?

Recently, the situation of the new crown epidemic in India has been escalating, which directly affects the air and sea freight markets. Not only have shipping prices soared, but even one cabin has become difficult to find. What is the specific situation?

01 One cabin on the Indian route is hard to find, and there is an explosion

Sijiamei is the person in charge of a shipping and freight forwarding company. She told reporters that in the second quarter of this year, the shipping space on the Southeast Asian route was particularly tight, especially when a large-scale new crown epidemic broke out in India in April. Now the route from Guangzhou to Shenzhen is basically ahead of schedule. Book a week.

She said that before the epidemic, 50% of the capacity relied on the belly hold of passenger planes to load cargo. Because of the epidemic, the passenger plane was cancelled, so the ability to load goods in the belly hold was lost. Now with all-cargo aircraft, it is indeed difficult to find a cabin. . The company of Li Ying, general manager of an aviation service company in Guangzhou, is mainly engaged in cargo charter services. Due to the recent increase in the number of customers booking cargo planes to India. In response to the surge in demand, the company doubled its capacity on the India-Pakistan route, while adding a new route in June dedicated to Delhi, India, for a year.

The reporter learned that at present, anti-epidemic materials such as oxygen generators are very short in India, and the export volume of anti-epidemic products has also surged. Wang Weiwen's company specializes in cargo services for Southeast Asian shipping routes. He told reporters that since the beginning of this year, the shipping prices of Southeast Asian routes have been rising, especially in April and May. The phenomenon. The so-called "rejection of containers" means that when a voyage is full, the shipping company has no choice but to hold the container until the next voyage or several voyages.

Wang Weiwen said that now you may not be able to get a space if you have money. Even if you have space, you may not be able to guarantee that the locker can be pulled onto the ship. There may be a situation of dumping the locker every minute. With the outbreak of the local epidemic in India, many boxes are stranded abroad, and there are basically no empty boxes to come back, so the situation is in short supply.