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]]>The Domestic Transport Portal acts as a vital bridge between shippers and carriers, facilitating the transportation of goods and handling tasks such as sourcing carriers, negotiating rates, managing documentation, and providing customers visibility throughout the shipment process.
Our new Domestic Transport Portal offers customers a wider network of carriers, increasing the chances of finding the most cost-effective and efficient transport solutions. Our existing line haul service typically involves fixed routes and carriers, the trucking brokerage taps into a larger network of carriers, ensuring more personalised and tailored shipment options. This flexibility allows us to find the most suitable options for each shipment, taking into account factors such as cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and specific customer requirements.
Our customers are now able to gain access to a broader network of carriers, increasing the chances of finding the most cost-effective and efficient transportation solutions for their shipments. We’ve established strong relationships with trusted carriers both in Australia and around the world, ensuring the sourcing of the best options to meet specific needs.
We can also negotiate competitive rates on behalf of our customers, resulting in cost savings. By connecting customers with carriers offering favourable pricing, we can help your business allocate resources more efficiently.
Customers can leave the complexities of carrier selection, documentation management, and tracking to our dedicated in-house team. This saves valuable time and effort, allowing businesses to focus on their core operations while we ensure a smooth and efficient logistics process.
The Domestic Transport Portal offers advanced tracking and reporting capabilities, providing valuable insights into logistics processes. This enables businesses to make data-driven decisions, identify areas for improvement, and optimise their overall supply chain efficiency.
So, how does the DTP work? The process is simple:
We are excited about the positive impact the DTP will have on customers’ logistics operations. The portal provides a user-friendly self-service experience, empowering customers to manage their shipments, access real-time information, and perform various tasks related to logistics management from one central location.
Customers can trust Stockwell to handle their logistics while focusing on growing their business. Contact us today to get started!
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]]>Chinese New Year will commence on January 22, 2023, and end on February 5, 2023. Nevertheless, many production sites will begin to decelerate and close down up to a month prior as this significant tradition is the only holiday where people get to spend extended time with their families.
As many ports, factories and production sites close, it can disrupt supply chains and impact the logistics of businesses. Preparing ahead of time will allow you to minimise the disruption of delays in your supply chain management system.
Factory closures halt goods delivered from factories to ports, and ports will function at a lower capacity due to the seasonal shipping rush from Chinese New Year closures. Ocean freight services may be full or overbooked earlier than usual, causing challenges in securing container space as carriers will be in high demand. As a result, this will increase rates for freight and other delivery services in and out of China.
If you want to avoid disruptions in your supply chain, placing orders well before the Chinese New Year is best. By preparing in advance and being mindful of deadlines, you can ensure your freight delivery runs smoothly.
Consult with your manufacturer and factories ahead of time on closures and final shipment dates to confirm that your supplies will reach you before the holiday. By booking your ocean freight at least three weeks in advance, you will have time to plan for any potential production delays and avoid disruptions in your supply chain.
The ramifications of delays in shipping and manufacturing can be long-lasting. If you’re receiving shipments from China, it’s best to communicate closely with your supplier. The dates of these shipments can change in the weeks leading up to Chinese New Year, as factories are working at full capacity. Ensure you have alternatives, such as organising inventory to avoid shortages due to delayed or slow shipments.
With proper planning and communication, you can prepare your supply chain for the impacts of the Chinese New Year, ensuring that you can continue serving your customers during this time. By working with freight services providers, freight forwarders, port authorities and logistics experts, you can mitigate any potential disruptions and ensure seamless operations during this period of production closures.
Need to get your stock moving quickly? Talk to Stockwell about our air freight options.
Our connections with major global airlines provide us with a wide range of freight forward solutions allowing us to move cargo fast and efficiently.
Having a trusted and reliable logistics partner with the expertise and resources to help clear any complications during the Chinese New Year period will not only ease seasonal shipping stress but ensure that your products reach you and your customers on time.
Get in touch with the Stockwell International team today, we can help with your freight booking needs, and the in-house booking office can arrange all your FCL movements in the lead up to and around Chinese New Year.
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]]>We have had relative stability over the last few months, the first in a very long time. I believe this relative stability is short lived and we should buckle back down for some more rate turbulence.
Shanghai has fully re-opened and there is now a backlog to clear. Currently there are 260,000 TEU to be cleared out just as peak season starts. This will more notably effect Europe and the USA.
USA continue to have chassis shortages, dwell delays and like all of us, driver, and staff shortages. Shipping lines have notified more LA omissions so more delays will be experienced. Europe are struggling with capacity as they hold containers bound for Russia due to the conflict in Ukraine. Along with the current strike action in UK it seems no port is safe from its own form of pain.
As an industry we are completely exhausted and over the short-term rate validities and the disappearance of long-term contracts. Online portals are hard work and have delivered nothing but lower levels of service and WAY more issues. Schedules are not reliable, and delays and changes are adding to the additional work operators already have.
Additionally, landside charges are also increasing regularly, empty parks remain congested and continue to experience issues and of course let’s not forget fuel increases!!
Stockwell’s have worked hard to try and put contingencies in place for all supply chain pain points. In response to less available contracts and less space we opened our booking office in April. Just this week we have expanded with new booking operations staff. This area of our business just focuses on space and rates. In just a short time we have seen a great amount of success with our booking office for clients. Our team plans, finds and secures the best and most suitable booking slot for our clients making sure it remains competitive. To get a container on a vessel is taking triple the amount of work (and time) so we will be separating freight bookings and customer service to ensure that they have time to continue to offer the best possible customer service to our clients. Our customers won’t notice the difference as our customer service team always remain their point of contact.
In summary, it’s been a year!! Its exhausting, challenging, frustrating and at times heart wrenching. Shipping lines continue to have a monopoly on our market, can do what they want, when they want, without recourse or justification and forwarders take on all the fallout and additional charges.
It is good to see customers educating themselves to all of the issues and forming stronger partnerships with forwarders rather than blaming them, working transparently and closely ensures both parties needs are met and there is an understanding on the common goals.
In closing don’t forget to start your Christmas ordering now, just in time shipping is for dummies and is always late and as we get closer to Christmas freight prices will increase.
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]]>According to reports, the trio say they expect to save ¥50bn ($440m) in costs in the first fiscal year ending 31 March 2019m and thereafter ¥110bn a year.
The synergies will come from personnel consolidation, combining agencies and subsidiaries and a lowest-common-denominator-reduction strategy on port costs and service provider fees.
In their traditional New Year messages to staff today, the presidents of K Line, MOL and NYK, Eizo Murakami, Junichiro Ikeda and Tadaaki Naito, spoke of the advantages of the integration and a “turning point” for their companies.
Mr Murakami said the “spinning-off” of K Line’s container business would “deliver the advantages of expansion of scale”. He expected ONE would “achieve greater competitiveness by bringing to bear the best practices of the three companies”.
Mr Ikeda said the “new business venture” would be a “major turning point for MOL and mark a new beginning”. He added that the MOL group was “transforming itself into an enterprise capable of generating steady profits”.
Mr Naito advised his workforce that the container business integration, along with the acquisition of Yusen Logistics, were “major decisions that will shape the future of the NYK group”.
He said ONE, in which NYK has a 38% stake – compared with the 31% each held by K Line and MOL – would “aim to commence services from April” and that “the difficult work of bringing the company to life is continuing”.
After the merger, ONE will rank sixth in terms of global ranking by capacity with its combined 1.48m teu on 234 ships, comfortably above Evergreen’s 1.1m teu and just behind Hapag-Lloyd’s 1.56m teu. However, with a combined orderbook of some 187,000 teu, ONE could leapfrog Hapag-Lloyd, which has no ships on order.
Nevertheless, a primary function for the new ONE ship planners will be to reduce costs by cutting out duplicated sailings, and there is likely to be a number of charter ships off-hired in due course.
(Reference: https://theloadstar.co.uk/three-japanese-carriers-looking-forward-coming-together-one/)
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]]>It also explores issues affecting the broader supply chain, including road and rail connections to container terminals.
Reference: Container Transport Alliance Australia, http://mailchi.mp/6a132b95d9ea/accc-container-stevedoring-monitoring-report-2016-17-ctaa-observations
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]]>Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has signed a Mutual Recognition Arrangement with China, in a move aimed at boosting trade between the two countries.
Mr Dutton and Minister of China Customs Yu Guangzhou signed the agreement in Canberra today, enabling the countries’ customs and border protection departments to recognise each other’s Authorized Economic Operator programs.
Australia already has similar arrangements with New Zealand, Korea, Canada and Hong Kong, with MRA negotiations underway with other major trading partners.
“China is our largest trading partner and this arrangement is expected to bring a benefit of $440m to Australia’s economy over 10 years,” Mr Dutton said.
Picture: Kym Smith.
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton and Minister of China’s Customs Yu Guangzhou signed a landmark Mutual Recognition Arrangement between Australia and China.
He said MRAs reduced the regulatory burden on Australian businesses, and would provide faster and more efficient access to the Chinese market for Australian Trusted Traders.
“This arrangement will provide Australian and Chinese businesses unprecedented access to trade facilitation benefits and will reduce costs for businesses trading between our two countries, while ensuring the integrity of our border,” Mr Dutton said.
“I encourage Australian businesses of all sizes to participate in the ATT program in order to make the most of this exciting opportunity.”
If you would like to find out how to become an Australian Trusted Trader, contact Stockwells at [email protected] or call 1300 786 468 and ask for Angela Gambell
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]]>‘Logistics – Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2014 – 2022’ projects a CAGR of 3.48% from 2016 to 2022, with Asia-Pacific dominating the global market in terms of revenue – accounting for more than a 34 per cent share of the global market. China accounts for about a 59 per cent share in the Asia-Pacific logistics market.
In 2014, the roadway segment dominated the global logistics market in terms of revenue, and it is projected to grow at a CAGR of 3.33 per cent during the forecast period. The manufacturing segment dominated the global logistics market, accounting for about 26 per cent share in 2014.
“Roadways are one of the key components of modes of transportation and multimodal transport. It accounts for nearly 47.29 per cent of the overall mode of transportation used in the world logistics market. The segment contributed highest share in total logistics market owing to its speed transportations and flexibility.”
Reference: Logistics Magazine, 26th March 2017, Global logistics market worth $16,063bn by 2022.
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