World Freight Costs
Drewry’s composite world container index increased yet another 1.7% in the past week alone and remains 344% higher than only a year ago. Delays are continuing to increase coupled with the inconvenience of complete schedule omissions and rollover of freight.
This is the 20th consecutive week of increases, and it is unclear why the government has not stepped in with assistance for more controlled pricing.
It seems that the shipping lines will continue to increase rates, as was seen today, with a further notification from shipping lines regarding the Peak Season Surcharge of yet another US$300/600 per TEU ex North East Asia.
As was recorded in our news alert last week these increases, and ongoing space issues will be felt all the way up to and including Christmas and Chinese New Year. Stockwells is reminding customers that there is an urgent need to order Christmas stock now in order to have stock for the holiday season.
Protected Industrial Action Fremantle
Stockwell International has been notified of protected industrial action at Patricks Terminal Fremantle.
- stoppage of work of 24 hours duration commencing at 0700hrs on Friday 10 Sep 2021 at Patricks Terminal Fremantle.
Please keep in mind this industrial action may cause delays and congestion, Stockwell International will keep you up to date with all relevant information as it becomes available.
China Mid-Autumn Holiday
Please note China will be out of office for Mid-Autumn holiday.
19 Sep to 21 Sep
For more information please contact your sales representative on 1300 786 468 or [email protected]
Typhoon Chanthu Headed for Taiwan and Southern China
A typhoon headed toward Taiwan and the southern coast of China is rapidly gaining in speed and strength ahead of an expected landfall later this week.
Typhoon Chanthu has rapidly intensified in the past 36 hours from a tropical depression into a severe typhoon, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, with maximum wind speeds of up to 233 kilometers per hour (145 miles per hour). It is likely Chanthu will expand into a super typhoon in the coming hours.
It is still unclear whether Chanthu will first pass over Taiwan before it slams into southern China
For more information please contact your sales representative on 1300 786 468 or [email protected]
Reference https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/08/asia/typhoon-chanthu-taiwan-china-intl-hnk/index.html
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
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. Aucklan
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
Khapra Beetle
From 30 September 2021, the DAWE will make minor revisions to the methyl bromide fumigation treatment certificate criteria for goods subject to the urgent actions to protect against khapra beetle (khapra measures).
IMPORTANT: There is no change to the department’s methyl bromide treatment certificate template. The revised treatment certificate criteria already form part of the template.
The BICON methyl bromide fumigation certificate requirements for khapra beetle treatment will be updated from 30 September 2021 to include the following criteria:
- Target of fumigation (e.g. commodity/packing/container/commodity and packing)
- Prescribed AND applied dose rate
- Fumigation enclosure type (e.g. sheeted container/chamber)
- Container number
- Declaration that the fumigation has been carried out in accordance with all the requirements in the methyl bromide fumigation methodology
- Signed declaration by the fumigator in-charge
The revised treatment certificate criteria apply to fumigations conducted on or after 30 September 2021. The changes listed will be made to ensure compliance with import conditions, and compliance with the department’smethyl bromide fumigation methodology.
- For questions please contact your sales rep on [email protected] or 1300 786 468
For questions please contact your sales rep on [email protected] or 1300 786 468
