Due to the rising import demand, the international shipping market has become very popular. However, due to port congestion and container shortage, freight rates are also rising.

As of the 27th, according to the latest data of the global container freight index, all routes around the world have gradually increased since the end of last year. In particular, the route to the United States has exceeded $20000.

Some people in the industry pointed out that one of the reasons for the current high freight rates of international shipping may be that someone is constantly driving up container prices.

Now there is such a phenomenon in the international shipping industry: freight is almost equal to the value of goods and the shortage of shipping space. In this process, large enterprises dominate, and small importers are not easy.

Driving up container prices is very serious

A person in charge of a freight forwarding company said that in fact, the container price given by the shipping company did not exceed our bearing range, but scalpers bid up the price to an unimaginable price.

It also said that because these people have a good relationship with the ship owner, they can get first-hand containers from the ship owner. Then these containers are resold to other peers. After these turnover, the price is naturally raised.

Some experts joked that it is still time to resell the boxes, which is much better than being a freight forwarder. Because the freight forwarder now has to spend several times more than before to get the box.

However, at present, some freight forwarders do not do their own business and begin to resell containers.

This is a time for container manufacturers and shipping companies to earn high profits. According to the first half annual report released by China international shipping container company, the first half profit was nearly 4.3 billion yuan. Last year, they were still in a state of loss.

Freight forwarders and foreign trade enterprises are in great pain

Different from shipping companies and enterprises producing containers, foreign trade enterprises and freight forwarders are very weak in this case.

Those high-value goods can also accept the high freight, while those with small value have to withdraw from the market and wait for the freight to decline.

For freight forwarders, in order to transport goods normally, they need to pay a high surcharge. Due to the congestion of the port, the goods have been piled up in the port and can not be transported out. 

The freight forwarder needs to pay the corresponding surcharge during the detention of the goods.

According to the analysis of some experts, it is expected that the heat of the international shipping market will not decrease in the second half of the year, and the demand for containers will continue to increase.