Freight down! Logistics company orders double!
In 2021, the shortage of cases, cabin explosion, freight increases substantially worldwide. On popular routes between China and the United States, container freight rates once climbed to $20,000 per teu, and the freight is even comparable to the value of a single container.
In 2022, sky-high freight rates eased, dropping to $7,000 from around $13,000 before the Spring Festival. The Shanghai export container freight rate index has also fallen from a high, down more than 17 percent this year.
In a logistics company in Guangzhou, many employees are busy making phone calls and booking shipping dates and shipping space for customers around the country.
With the resumption of guangzhou port, the order volume of their enterprises also directly doubled during this period.
With last year, a box is hard to get, a cabin is hard to get the sea market is different, now general routes to a week in advance to book shipping space.
