Posted on 04/12/2022 10:22:19 AM PDT by blam
Rerouting freight to avoid the extended lockdown in Shanghai, where daily confirmed COVID cases topped a record 17,000 this week, is becoming more difficult and expensive as cargo facilities in other Chinese cities become overcrowded, logistics companies and carriers warn.
The logistics challenges for ocean and airfreight in Shanghai are extreme.
More than 90% of truck capacity is out of service. Trucks are prevented from moving in and out of the city without a special permit, which is only valid for 24 hours and only on specific routes. “Even with this arranged, it is possible for booked trucks to be commandeered by the government to transport aid supplies,” Seko Logistics said in an update for clients.
Most warehouses in the city are closed. Pactl, the large airport cargo terminal operator, only has skeleton operations.
Limited truck access to Shanghai port terminals is causing shipping containers to pile up and slowing ship transfers. Seko said its team in Shanghai has seen an 80% decrease in container pickups from outside the lockdown area because of driver shortages and restrictions, with drivers requiring a special pass and negative COVID test results.
Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s largest container vessel operator, on Thursday said it will begin offloading refrigerated containers at other ports because there are no available power plugs to connect to in Shanghai. Unless customers request a specific change in destination within seven days, reefers will be discharged at intermediate or alternate ports of the carrier’s choosing. Additional freight charges for transshipment, storage, equipment rental and electrical connection may apply.
“If the situation does not improve soon it may be necessary to abandon the voyage and advise you from where your container may be collected,” MSC said in a customer notice.
Ocean Network Express also said overcrowding at two Shanghai container terminals might prevent its vessels from discharging reefer boxes.
Several ocean carriers have announced they will skip berthing at Shanghai due to traffic restrictions, which Seko said will intensify congestion at the terminals once restrictions are lifted.
Congestion spreads
Meanwhile, terminals at the Port of Ningbo are filling up and facing equipment shortages as more freight is diverted from Shanghai, freight forwarders report. Freight rates from Ningbo are rising as a result.
AIT Worldwide, based in Itasca, Illinois, notified customers that cargo terminals at other airports are now reporting delays of their own with Shanghai Pudong International Airport effectively out of action.
In Zhengzhou, for example, inbound and outbound air shipments can take up to seven days to get through a queue and another three to four days to be processed. Import operations at the Nanjing airport are suspended. And authorities are requiring all imported cargo in Qingdao to be stored in the terminal for 10 days following disinfection.
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(Source: AIT Worldwide)
Logistics providers are also redirecting cargo to airports in Wuhan, Hangzhou and Nanchang.
International passenger and cargo airlines have responded by canceling the majority of flights in and out of Shanghai Pudong airport. Delta Air Lines, for example, said this week it won’t process cargo there until at least April 18. Most international cargo flights are now being operated by Chinese airlines, said Itasca-based Seko Logistics, which has moved more than 10 tons of airfreight through alternate airports since the Shanghai restrictions began nearly two weeks ago.
Seko also reported that an outbreak in Quzhou is spreading, with shipments scheduled for departure in the coming weeks needing to be postponed until the government settles on a course of action.
Nick Bartlett, director of CBIP Logistics in Hong Kong, told FreightWaves cases of infection are increasing in Suzhou and all of Jiangsu Province and that Zhejiang is likely to next feel restrictive measures.
“We have cargo stuck on trucks, in warehouses and container freight stations,” in Shanghai and no new containers are able to reach the port there, he said via email.
The lockdown in Kunshan, an important electronics manufacturing hub next to Shanghai, is supposed to end by the end of the week. Truck movements in and out of the city are severely restricted, except for pandemic relief supplies approved by the local government, Seko said. Trucks can only shuttle within the city between warehouses and factories with special approval. The restrictions are impacting the Wuxi Logistics Park and Seko clients with suppliers in the city.
I suspect there is no legitimate COVID reason to lock Shanghai down.
it’s economic warfare to magnify supply chain shocks and shortages
Quit buying Chinese made items.
Then the problem goes away.
I know easier said than done.
Even average Chinese now suspect this is political - its widely believed the "anti-Xi Jinping" group within the CCP have their political-base in Shanghai.
Moreover, life is "normal" (or as normal as possible) in other cities. Trains, plains, cars, etc... running normally between other cities. People ask - how is it other major cities have nearly zero "cases," while somehow just the borders of Shanghai there are tens of thousands? China social media is also seemingly allowing posts that are against Shanghai government management - while shutting down any other anti-CCP or "covid conspiracy" posts.
What’s happening in Shanghai is dystopian out of a movie type of situation, 25 million people locked into their homes, all their pets being killed, starving over what ??
Part of me wishes this goes on for awhile, they are starting to fight back in Shanghai, 25 million people can overcome any army considering they are starving to death, they are willing to fight for food if nothing else.
The problem is that even products “Made in the USA” often have component parts made in China. Yet have no fear. The transport of fentanyl will not be interrupted.
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Put up really high tariffs and bring all manufacturing home. All of it.
Make EVRYTING here. Problem solved FOREVER.
Pets = dinner
“I suspect there is no legitimate COVID reason to lock Shanghai down.”
I suspect that there is a reason, but someone pulled the trigger too soon.
The USA looks a lot like Rome, a Republic with an occasional emperor running the show as they see fit. Rome at a time of it’s peak, powerful, but with significant social and economic issues that easily crumbled it.
Somebody thought history will repeat itself.
That may be.
But we have a Constitution. One we follow so closely that we allow cheaters to be put into power and cannot correct it until the next elections.
That maybe is what saves the USA, unless we allow the courts to dream up new rights and laws not explicitly written in that Constitution, from their tea leaves.
Chinese crisis actor FEAR PORN for American media consumption which will then trigger lockdowns in U.S. and thousands upon thousands of fraudulent mail-in ballots COUNTED in the U.S. midterm election.
“Quit buying Chinese made items.
Then the problem goes away.
I know easier said than done”
You got that right.
In the past I have actively attempted just that.....it’s pretty much impossible.
The quality of chinese products sucks.
Many strange headlines are going to start coming out of China, that will have nothing to do with the actual situation on the ground.
--- "the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) strengthened its control of public opinion in China, seeking to further crackdown...." Given that the idiot Left and uncritical "moderates" cheered lockdowns the last time around in the US, I think this is simply ugly, destructive theater for public consumption in the West.
CCP to Europe and the US --- "Cases! Cases! Cases! Lock down again like we're doing. See! Zero Covid! Test! Test! Test! Be like us! Come on! Monkey see, monkey do."
After all, look at all our hazmat suits and masks. Panic! We need to sell more junk PPE stuff to you! Test! Test! Test!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=5c999ae417e5
And whatever you do, DO NOT look at today's Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center's page on China's reported deaths. (Spoiler alert: 13,465)
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
" Rerouting freight to avoid the extended lockdown in Shanghai, where daily confirmed COVID cases topped a record 17,000 this week, is becoming more difficult and expensive
as cargo facilities in other Chinese cities become overcrowded, logistics companies and carriers warn.
The logistics challenges for ocean and airfreight in Shanghai are extreme."
" More than 90% of truck capacity is out of service.
Trucks are prevented from moving in and out of the city without a special permit, which is only valid for 24 hours and only on specific routes...
Most warehouses in the city are closed. Pactl, the large airport cargo terminal operator, only has skeleton operations."
"Limited truck access to Shanghai port terminals is causing shipping containers to pile up and slowing ship transfers.
Seko said its team in Shanghai has seen an 80% decrease in container pickups from outside the lockdown area because of driver shortages and restrictions, with drivers requiring a special pass and negative COVID test results. "
Stupid ChiComs.
And of course that’s the leaders, probably most citizens want no part of this.
I have done it when shopping for clothing.
That does not mean I bought clothing made in the USA. However, I bought Wrangler jeans made in Ol Mexico instead of Levis. Hanes underware made in the Dominican Republic.
The tough thing is power tools. They are almost all made in China now. I think only Dewalt makes some here.
True that. I decided to repair my 1990 Stihl chainsaw when I blew the piston in May 2021. The local Stihl guy convinced me because he said my saw was better than the same model today.
It took 9 months to get the piston and rings delivered to the local shop here in NH. Who knows where that part came from. The original saw was made in Germany.
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