China Empty Containers Is Not Enough，Goods Cannot Be Exported.
Empty container is one of the very important basic elements of shipping. It is the starting and ending point of maritime trade. Affected by the epidemic, international container transport prices soared, China’s container is difficult to find. How to solve the problem of container shortage and accelerate the efficiency of China empty containers turnover?
On August 10, 2021, Shanghai Port Northeast Asia Empty Container Transfer Center built by China Shanghai Port Group and Maersk, Duffy, Mediterranean and Evergreen and other world famous shipping logistics settled in Yangshan Special Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, which will provide in-port empty container repair service in the future and operate the empty container center in blocks according to the needs and characteristics of each shipping logistics company to solve the seasonal shortage of containers caused by the imbalance of import and export container volume.
Solve The Seasonal Shortage Of China Empty Containers
Chen Wei, assistant general manager of the production business department of Shanghai Port Group, said that the lack of boxes in the shipping industry is a seasonal imbalance, the previous empty box tension is mainly concentrated in the shipping peak in July and August, to the Spring Festival period empty box surplus. At present, due to the impact of the epidemic, causing tension in the industry and supply chain crisis, the bottleneck mainly lies in the stagnation of some port logistics, resulting in the slow return of empty containers.
The landing of the empty container transfer center will largely ease the pressure of container supply and demand. In the long run, there is still a greater capacity to match empty containers in the future after the epidemic has passed. For Shanghai Port Group, in addition to grasp the ship loading and unloading, but also to better serve the market, to meet the actual needs of import and export enterprises.
Enhanced Resource Allocation, Increase China Empty Containers
Improve the ability to allocate resources, the first is to have resources, including the port’s resources, the shipping company’s resources, and empty container is one of the shipping company’s resources. Chen Wei introduced that Shanghai port is the world’s largest container port, and Yangshan port is one of the most important port groups in Shanghai port. There are many empty containers here, and Yangshan deep-water port is mainly for European and American ocean-going routes, with a large number of empty containers traveling between China and Europe and America.
Data show that in the first half of 2021, Yangshan Special Comprehensive Security Zone achieved a total import and export volume of 65.687 billion yuan, up 56.7% year-on-year. Among them, exports were 26.506 billion yuan, up 85.2% year-on-year, and imports were 39.18 billion yuan, up 41.9% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the container throughput of Yangshan Deepwater Port reached 11.155 million TEUs, up 20% year-on-year, and is expected to exceed 23 million TEUs this year, and will reach 26 million TEUs by 2025.
“We have an empty container call base, within the new area, within the scope of our core hub port, established a 450,000 square meters empty container yard, attracting empty containers to gather in Shanghai port, while at the same time providing the best empty container supporting services capabilities, including repair, washing, inspection and dispatch services, so that shipping companies are assured that empty containers will be prioritized for centralized transshipment in Shanghai port. “
At present, the industry is short of containers, the Port of Shanghai is negotiating with shipping companies to give priority to empty containers to meet the hinterland market of the Port of Shanghai. Chen Wei said, for customers, the future empty containers to the base, shipping companies will only have more empty containers to meet the needs of the hinterland market.”We created a base first to attract more empty containers to come, and customers can enjoy the convenience of empty containers only after they come.”
In addition to the empty container base, Shanghai Port is also planning the construction of an empty container platform and a sub-center of Shanghai Port’s empty container shipment center. “We hope that the empty container resources of some social yards can be coordinated and can better provide empty container strategies.“
Chen Wei gives an example, for example, the container truck driver goes to pick up the empty containers, the driver is in Waigaoqiao, but the shipping company gives the instruction to go to Yangshan Port to pick up the containers. “If we have a better platform and system, we can give him a good empty container strategy and tell the container truck driver to pick up the empty container nearby, which improves the efficiency of empty container turnover and also facilitates the majority of customers.”
For example, in the future, after the establishment of the empty container platform, empty containers arrive at Shanghai port, if Shanghai port can’t stack them, you can take a strategy to transfer the empty containers to Yangtze river ports, inland river ports, etc. Shanghai port unites the resources of Yangtze river coast and inland river ports to jointly cope with the demand of empty containers.
Yan Jun, president of Shanghai Port Group, said that in the future, Shanghai Port Northeast Asia Air Container Transfer Center will do four things well. First, it will accelerate the capacity building of the air container transfer center, actively carry out joint venture cooperation with shipping companies, make up for the short board of air container supply, and build a specific system of domestic and international air container call. Secondly, we will do our best to build the information construction of the air container transfer center, build the air container transfer platform, promote the interconnection and complementary advantages with the innovative industry, and establish the development system of online and offline integration.
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