Shipping Prices Rose Nearly 5 Into European Orders Increased Risk.

Since the beginning of this year, COSCO, CSCC and other companies also follow the price increase after the shipping giant's European Maersk Group raised the price.

Up to now, the shipping companies have increased their freight rates three times, and the freight rates of popular routes in Europe and the United States have even increased by two times.

For many foreign trade enterprises, it is affected by the sluggish demand of the international market.

The rate itself is at a low level.

And the rise in shipping prices will further narrow its profit margins.

It is understood that in the case of substantial increase in shipping prices,

Shandong and other places import and export enterprises have been affected, and even enterprises have cancelled orders.

After consulting a number of export enterprises, we know that most of the affected enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises, while the listed companies have little influence.

European routes rose nearly 50%

At the end of April, the Da Fei ship announced that it had implemented the "urgent" freight rate recovery from Eurasian airlines in May 1st, with a range of 385 US dollars /TEU.

Overseas orient and COSCO have respectively raised $450 /TEU and $425 /TEU for KIA Europe in May.

After an interview with a shipping listed company, it was learned that since March, major shipping companies have been raising their prices, and their price range has spread to all routes. Among them, European routes are the highest. The price of a standard cabinet to Europe is about 1600 dollars, or about 50%.

Industry,

Industry, iron and steel enterprises have been greatly affected.

Because the main markets of these industries are abroad, or the main raw materials depend on imports.

The cost of these industries has also risen with the increase in the price of ocean freight.

As the price of shipping rises, the pportation cost of the export enterprises is rising, and the influence is reflected in the following: first, the rising of the sea price leads to the rise of the export commodity price, which has weakened the competitiveness of the domestic export enterprises.

The two is that the rising shipping price has led to the increase in the cost of pportation cost of export enterprises, and the overall profit is affected.

One has been engaged in import and export trade for a long time.

People in the industry say that for imported timber, for example, it earned 100 yuan in the past 1 cubic meters, but now it is 300 yuan.

"Since the second half of last year, importers of iron ore, timber and other bulk commodities have lost $1.8 million and are not paying at all. There are many people who claim more than ten million yuan. Every day, people in this industry leave."

It has been reported that in last year alone, more than 4000 logistics and trading enterprises in Qingdao went bankrupt.

According to customs statistics, the total value of China's imports and exports was US $1 trillion and 167 billion 180 million in 1-4 months, up 6% from the same period last year.

Among them, exports amounted to $593 billion 240 million, an increase of 6.9% over the previous year, and imports of US $573 billion 940 million, an increase of 5.1% over the same period last year. The cumulative trade surplus was US $19 billion 300 million.

Aviation enterprises raise their prices and save themselves

From this year's quarterly report, the loss of airline enterprises is widespread.

COSCO lost 2 billion 695 million yuan in the first quarter.

CSCL operating income in the first quarter was 6 billion 450 million yuan, down 1.1% from the same period last year, with a loss of 1 billion 450 million yuan.

After careful consideration, the airline companies resolutely raised the price surges.

"Shipping prices almost rose for a month."

Some exporters complain.

As freight prices continue to rise, some export enterprises that have signed orders have been avoiding the possibility of rising prices by way of order to avoid high freight rates.

In addition, there are enterprises that have cancelled orders due to wait-and-see tariff revaluation.

Then, can the price increase continue? The basic pattern of the shipping market has not changed at present, that is to say, the surplus capacity will continue for a period of time.

The reason why the price of shipping is rising is mainly because the price of shipping has been low enough for shipping companies to bear. For the purpose of self-help, shipping companies have been raising their prices. This is a typical bottoming out.

But in the case of the overall market structure of shipping industry has not changed significantly, this price increase is unsustainable.

Maersk spokesman said: "the current tariff is still at an unreasonable level, which is another reason for the announcement of the price increase in May 1st."

Maersk also said that the next hope is to adjust the capacity to meet the market supply and demand balance.

Export growth is slowing down.

Today's

Enterprises can be seen as a bad year. In addition to having a headache, the cost of shipping and the shrinkage of profits should also be taken into account.

According to the foreign trade data released by the General Administration of customs, the growth rate of imports and exports dropped to 2.7% in April.

Apart from the negative impact of the Spring Festival on the growth of foreign trade in January this year, this is the lowest monthly growth rate of China's foreign trade since January 2010.

Data show that at the 111st Canton Fair this year, exports totaled $36 billion 30 million, down 4.8% from the previous session.

This is a rare decrease in turnover in the Canton Fair.

One export trader complained that this year's export orders were not ideal, 1/3 less than before.

Changjiang Securities analysis shows that in April, the port container throughput of China was 14 million 390 thousand TEU, an increase of 8.4% over the same period last year, and the growth rate was unchanged from the 1 quarter.

For China's export enterprises, if they do not change their business structure, they will face

The rise is almost helpless, and can only bear the cost of rising shipping prices.

For most export enterprises, only by developing and producing high-end products and increasing the added value of products can the freight cost increase and the overall profit margin of the company be increased.

Following the financial crisis, the European debt crisis has made our export enterprises very sad.

Especially after the failure of the Greek Cabinet reorganization recently announced, the enterprises exporting to Europe have to bear the risks.

It is China's largest trading partner.

The collapse of the Greek Cabinet and a series of events such as the European Union's crisis have led to the continued downturn in the EU economy. Under such circumstances, China EU trade and economic cooperation has also been in the doldrums.

In April, China's negative export growth to Europe was 2%, which has declined for the four consecutive month since the beginning of the year.

The decline in China's exports to Europe has led to a decline in the performance of China's export enterprises, and production and operation have been greatly affected.

The biggest impact on the export industry is the textile industry.

The specific impact is reflected in the decline in export volume and unit price, the decrease in corporate profit margins and the decrease in overall profits.

Apart from changing the way of operation, there is no solution to this problem.