The conditions on the land are not much better. In addition to the shortage of ultra freezer containers, the transit stations also lack usable plugs.Īccording to data from DIAA (Dairy Industry Association of Australia), Victoria’s dairy exports have been facing a month-long delay, while shippers of North American agricultural products have severely criticized shipping companies, accusing them of shipping empty reefers to China instead of exporting American cargo. Similarly, the shipping time of seafood from Southeast Asia to Japan has increased significantly. Now it takes 45 days or more to transport agricultural products from Chennai to Thailand, while it took only 18 days before the transportation was interrupted. Shippers around the world are struggling to obtain enough reefers to transport perishable items, and shipping time has been severely interrupted. The increase in the rate of freezer containers also indicates that shippers of perishable goods will be in greater agony.Īs with 20-foot and 40-foot ordinary shipping containers, the decline in port productivity due to Covid-19 measures and subsequent terminal congestion has caused the circulation of containers to slow down, and ultra freezer containers have been also facing a shortage of supply and lagging demand.ĭrewry Shipping said that as demand in the freezer industry is growing faster than general commodities, these problems have hit the reefer industry particularly severely. On the contrary, the Chinese authorities’ testing of freezer containers for the COVID has suspended thousands of containers in ports.
And this has not brought any obvious relief. In December of 2020, Hapag-Lloyd stopped accepting bookings for 40-foot ultra freezer containers from five Central European countries until the end of the year. Starting from April 1, the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has increased the freight rates of general and ultra freezer containers from Egypt to Latin America.
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