Coca-Cola is so desperate for freight space it’s importing ingredients on coal ships
Destine Ozuygur Destine Ozuygur

Coca-Cola is so desperate for freight space it’s importing ingredients on coal ships

‘Coca-Cola’s unorthodox supply chain move underscores the extreme frustration many retailers feel with shipping lines…The average Asia-US shipment now arrives 10 days late, according to Simon Sundboell, CEO of the shipping analytics firm eeSea. “If you’re a cargo owner, you can’t understand how you have to pay six times what you usually do and…it’s so volatile that your vessel might be three days late or it might be 20 days late,” he said. “You just can’t count on anything anymore.” ‘

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Germany’s Christmas King Gets Caught Up in Shipping Chaos
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Germany’s Christmas King Gets Caught Up in Shipping Chaos

“Klaus Müller-Blech is sending Christmas to Gettysburg, Pa., in a 1,000-foot long container ship. So far it’s running three months late thanks to global transportation congestion…The slow and expensive global journeys of Mr. Müller-Blech’s baubles, trees and ornaments show how every aspect of international transportation is under stress ahead of the busy Christmas season.”

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Container ships now piling up at anchorages off China’s ports
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Container ships now piling up at anchorages off China’s ports

“There are over 60 container ships full of import cargo stuck offshore of Los Angeles and Long Beach, but there are more than double that — 154 as of Friday — waiting to load export cargo off Shanghai and Ningbo in China, according to eeSea, a company that analyzes carrier schedules.”

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Construction of fourth berth at London Gateway to begin next month
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Construction of fourth berth at London Gateway to begin next month

“…DP World announced today it would begin construction of a fourth berth at London Gateway next month. The Dubai-headquartered port operator said this morning it would invest £300m ($415m) in the new facility, building on the £2bn-plus it has already ploughed into the UK’s newest deepsea port.”

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Europe’s landslide disruption offsets carrier capacity injection
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Europe’s landslide disruption offsets carrier capacity injection

“…the injection of supply is being countered by congested ports delaying vessels and inland logistics bottlenecks slowing equipment turnaround…Data from container shipping visibility provider eeSea show Asia-North Europe capacity growth in August 2021 increasing 29 percent versus the capacity deployed in July and up 11 percent versus June. August capacity was up 34 percent year over year.”

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Boxship charter rates hit unprecedented $200,000 a day
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Boxship charter rates hit unprecedented $200,000 a day

“Looking at the big picture, new analysis from Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence shows that the 11 global carriers that report their results recorded a combined EBIT of $24.5bn in the second quarter. Putting this in perspective, the 11 carriers were only able to muster a total combined EBIT of $6.9bn for the entire period from 2012 to 2020.”

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Loss of effective container capacity driving record spot rates
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Loss of effective container capacity driving record spot rates

“With a record vessel backup of 47 container ships waiting outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during the Aug. 28 and 29 weekend, the core problem facing container logistics — the slowdown in the circulation of ships, containers, and chassis that is draining capacity and driving spot rates to record levels — is clearly worsening.”

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Port congestion sapping major Asia-US ship capacity injection
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Port congestion sapping major Asia-US ship capacity injection

“Container lines this month began upping their deployment of trans-Pacific capacity, with approximately 22 percent more capacity available to the West Coast through December than was available in March through July, according to eeSea, a platform that maps carrier schedules. Carriers are also adding approximately 14.4 percent more capacity to the East Coast through year-end, eeSea said.”

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More than 40 ships waiting outside LA and Long Beach setting new record
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More than 40 ships waiting outside LA and Long Beach setting new record

“Splash has identified 41 containerships at or near to the San Pedro anchorage awaiting a berth today in a peak season like none other in the 65-year history of containerisation…The Los Angeles port data for August showed that 90% of vessels headed straight to anchor, joining a queue averaging 7.8 days of anchor time.”

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Chinese boxport congestion grows in wake of Ningbo closure
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Chinese boxport congestion grows in wake of Ningbo closure

“Discussing the fast changing global congestion scene, eeSea founder Simon Sundboell commented: ‘The picture of course changes daily, and my impressions from speaking to our port customers is exactly that; it’s really a moving target right now – with a multitude of variables, not just Covid – and incredibly hard to plan for.’ “

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Full steam ahead: Why container ships are racing across the Pacific
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Full steam ahead: Why container ships are racing across the Pacific

“ ‘Under normal circumstances, carriers would never do this, because bunker consumption is such a major cost factor,’ said Simon Sundboell, CEO of shipping data provider eeSea. ‘But if you’re talking about rates of $12,000 [per forty-foot equivalent unit], you will do it…’ “

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