COVID-19 Outbreak / Restrictions on Sea & Land Road Transport

In the transport sector, increases in equipment, ground problems and freight triggered by Covid restrictions continue. The stop booking or service cancellation on the Central and South American ships we shared in the previous notice remains valid until March.

USA Due to restrictions in private, serious disruptions and waitings occur in all ports and in all additional services, such as domestic shipping/storage, which are connected to it. Shipowners cut door-to-door services into the United States due to a shortage of truckers.

The 29 busiest container ports in the world are located in countries with the Pacific coast. The current container problem and freight increases are due to high demand in this region. As container transport prices increase in the region, equipment circulating throughout the rest of the world is transported to this region for high profits, thus causing the equipment problem and related high freight.

On the market Chinese New Year The expectation is that the freight will fall after that, but it doesn't seem very applicable that the freighters who came to the 6000-9000 USD band when they were 1000 USD were suddenly left to the old level by the shippers, at least if the equipment shortages we envisioned were low. During 2021 It will not return to its former levels. Therefore, it is very important for your sales or purchasing teams to create a prediction by taking this into account when planning.

The shipowners have stopped serving direct to most areas and prefer to provide transfer service. This can cause long waits in port. When giving ETA to your customers, we think it is helpful to inform them that there may be shipper-induced delays for this reason. Meanwhile, we see the shipowners avoiding the costs of purchasing new ships and tending to use common ships among themselves. Most of the time, even if we choose different shipowners, we are actually loading on the same ship. This has been common in airline passenger transport for many years. For general information, we share the related mergers below.

• MAERSK MSC OOCL
• Cma cgm ,cosco,evergreen
• Hapag-lioyd, one, yang ming, hmm

We wish you a healthy and prosperous day with plenty of exports.