URGENT OCEAN FREIGHT
If you are not accepting freight rates now due to the astronomical pricing and you believe by waiting a few months the rates will go down, please revise as the rates are only set to continue to increase as we approach Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year peaks.
What looks expensive today will be downright ludicrous by next week. Please let us know how you would like us to manage the next few months with pricing.
Most shipping lines are charging fees for cancellations so if we get you space and you decline based on rates, there will be a charge. But if we understand your ceiling limits we can assist to make judgement calls on your behalf.
Please contact either your sales or customer service representative ASAP to discuss.
Amended Transport Fuel Surcharge – Perth
Please note effective 6th September 2021 Stockwell’s fuel surcharge for Perth/Fremantle is 15%. This applies to Perth metropolitan locations only.
For more information please contact your sales representative on 1300 786 468 or [email protected]
Ocean Freight Update
All NZ ports are currently operating with revised labour schedules and handover regimes to ensure compliance with nationwide lockdown measures. This will impact berth and crane productivity as well as receival performance. Auckland container terminal is experiencing additional 2-4 day delays to obtain a working berth. These delays will impact all Asia-NZ trade as well as AU-NZ trade.
EMC have announced that due to rollovers and backlog at most major ports, Xingang won’t be able to accept any new bookings for vessels ETD Xingang before 30 September.
Rates ex North-East Asia have continued to increase in September. Bookings are strong across all carriers as we get further into peak season. Rollovers, severe port congestion/delays caused by covid-19 lockdowns, service omissions and equipment imbalances have all contributed to prices continuing to sky rocket. A number of shipping lines have indicated that they do not anticipate ocean freight prices to start dropping until the start of 2022.
Due to a COVID-19 outbreak in Jiangsu Province (Shanghai region), trucking costs have increased significantly due to lack of driver availability. We have been advised that all drivers delivering containers to Shanghai Port have to deliver a negative covid test within the last 48 hours.
Ningbo Meishan terminal has re-opened following a covid outbreak among port workers. Operations at this terminal completely ceased for two weeks due to lockdown restrictions. This has had a major impact on the operations on vessels in the Ningbo area. Delays and rollovers are expected to be high from this port for the next month at least as carriers try to clear backlogs caused by this shutdown.
Cosco have suspended booking acceptance from all European ports for the month of September as it struggles to deal with huge back-log of containers currently waiting to be shipped from Singapore to AU/NZ ports.
Cosco and OOCL have advised: Due to Singapore transshipment congestion and vessels delay, with immediate effect, all FOB bookings ex China origins to ADL/FRE are suspended until further notice. At this stage ANL and MSC are still accepting bookings ex China to Adelaide and Fremantle.
MSC, Maersk and Hamburg have 3 upcoming services where they will omit Busan, Qingdao and Ningbo. These three services are back to back, departing NEA the first three weeks of September. This is going to take a significant amount of space out of the market from these ports so demand for space from other carriers like ANL, Evergreen, Hapag, Cosco etc is going to go through the roof.
For questions please contact your sales rep on [email protected] or 1300 786 468
BMSB 2020-2021
For the 2021-22 BMSB risk season, BMSB seasonal measures will apply to targeted goods manufactured and shipped from target risk countries, that have been shipped between 1 September 2021 and 30 April 2022 (inclusive), and to vessels that berth, load, or tranship from target risk countries within the same period.
Whats new –
23 July 2021 – addition of Poland as a target risk country
23 July 2021 – Emerging risk countries identified as Belarus, Malta, Sweden, United Kingdom and Chile
26 August 2021 – Removal of tariff chapters 36 and 93 from target high risk goods list
26 August 2021 – Removal of tariff chapters 25, 26, 31, 46 and 47 from target risk goods list
Target risk countries –
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Czechia
- France
- Japan (heightened vessel surveillance will be the only measure applied).
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Montenegro
- Moldova
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of North Macedonia
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United States of America
For questions please contact your sales rep on [email protected] or 1300 786 468
