The Suez Canal blockage effect on Marine gradually revealed
ocal time on March 23, a very large freighter ran aground in the Suez Canal, the communication of the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic and voyage short canal almost completely blocked, hundreds of ship stuck in the canal, some ships are hesitant around trip longer the cape of good hope.
Shanghai maritime university professor of Shanghai international shipping research center YanMing in an interview with the China trade news reporter, “the overall impact of the matter depends on the duration of the event.The Suez Canal is an important channel of crude oil, the Persian gulf to Europe and America region under the condition of the already rising oil prices, international oil prices in the short term may therefore further upward.”
In YanMing view, longer distance will bring a series of chain effects.“The Suez Canal jams makes between asia-europe sea voyage stretched, as a result, many ships will around the cape of good hope, range extended by 10 days to two weeks.Most of the enterprise’s inventory is according to the goods in transit time estimates are usually relatively stable and reserves, now the flight delay was may make the enterprise inventory nervous, affect production or sales in different extent.Have suffered from the outbreak hit global shipping order and will face a new challenge.”YanMing analysis said, “in addition, for the port enterprises, usually for ship terminal operation walkthrough time window.The Suez Canal jams makes recently for a period of time the dock at the decrease in the number of ships, and stay after the congestion, and concentrated to sailing to related to the port of destination, it will give relevant terminal interference caused by normal operation of the process.”
At the same time, the meaning of “economic speed” are embodied in the accident.YanMing tells a reporter, in general, the ship company attaches great importance to control over speed, will maintain the ship speed at a reasonable level to reduce fuel consumption, because after the speed increase fuel consumption will increase greatly.“After the canal jams around, in addition to the range stretched itself increases fuel consumption, some ships in order to recover the delay time will improve the speed and thus fuel consumption will increase a lot, fuel costs will increase significantly.”Yin said.
All this, will bring the follow-up around the owner of the goods, shipping companies, insurance companies, a lot of responsibilities and interests of the parties related to the dispute.YanMing analysis says, “some ships have chosen via the cape of good hope, for example, some distance from the Suez Canal has been close to ship will be entangled with whether the deviation.‘right and wrong of making these decisions and the accuracy is hard to advance to produce extra expense, but are likely to produce corresponding legal disputes.This requires the insurance company and shipping trade parties to clarify responsibilities.”
“Canal shipping each day of delay, the influence of transportation and trade between the asia-europe will multiply.”Shipment where founder and CEO of Zhou Shihao said in an interview, “affected by the new crown pneumonia outbreak last year, in fact, the current capacity of the whole shipping market also is in a state of nervous.If the canal is still not back to normal after 2 to 3 weeks, the asia-europe run between cargo transport delays, substantially the market capacity will also be greatly reduced, which in turn lead to again a massive explosion tank, rise in price.”
It is understood that according to the progress on the solution of the accident, which has made the corresponding plan to ship it to.“At present, which platform to ship it to consult the customer number of trains increased by about three times as compared with before.”Zhou Shihao said, first of all for emergency goods exports, which with the help of china-eu trains, the card to ship it to air to solve the problem of transport, especially to ensure that the epidemic prevention and control the transportation of goods, but also connect better channel resources of the land, prepared emergency air charter services to help clearance;Second, shipped timely tracking accident which meeting through the platform way, as well as the adjustment of container liners information, to ensure that the first time the latest push shipping operation information to the China import and export enterprises, to help customers and their overseas buyers timely planning transportation and marketing solutions, ensure smooth transport corridor between China and the eu goods as soon as possible.
