Global container shipping market freight rates to a new high! The United States line up the most aggressive European line did not fall！！！

Difficult to solve the plight of the shipping market, leading to a continuous rise in freight rates, but also forced the United States retail giant Walmart to rent their own ship to ensure that there is sufficient capacity and inventory to meet the second half of the festive business opportunities, and this is also following the Home Depot, Amazon and other retail giants after another large shippers decided to rent their own ship charter solutions.

Some media reports, Wal-Mart executives recently said that supply chain disruptions threaten sales is the main reason for Wal-Mart to specialize in chartering ships to deliver goods, to ensure that the third and fourth seasons capacity to provide sufficient inventory, while responding to the expected rise in the second half of the cost pressures.

Against the latest issue of the Shanghai Shipping Exchange SCFI integrated container freight index, Deloitte World Container Freight Index WCI have continued to record high.

According to the Shanghai Export Container Freight Index (SCFI) information, the latest week's comprehensive container freight index 4340.18 points, continued to hit a record high, a weekly increase of 1.3%. According to the latest SCFI tariff information, the Far East to the U.S. West, the U.S. East line tariff continued to rise, between 3-4%, including the Far East to the U.S. West per FEU reached 5,927 U.S. dollars, up 183 U.S. dollars from the previous week, or 3.1%; Far East to the U.S. East per FEU reached 10,876 U.S. dollars, up 424 U.S. dollars from the previous week, or 4%; and the Far East to the Mediterranean tariff per TEU reached $7,080 per TEU, up $29 from the previous week, while the Far East to Europe per TEU rate fell $9 this week to $7,398, following a decline of $11 the previous week. In this regard, the industry pointed out that it is a weighted combination of multiple routes to Europe market rates, the Far East to Europe line rates did not decline but also rising. In the Asian line, Asian line this week per TEU rate of $ 866, the same as last week.

The WCI Freight Index also rose 192 points to 9,613 points in the recent week, with the U.S.-Western line rising the most by $647 to $10,969 and the Mediterranean line rising by $268 to $13,261.

Freight forwarding industry sources said that the European and American consumer countries to plug the red light, coupled with the desire to rush in mainland China before the Eleventh Golden Week factory vacation shipments, the manufacturing industry, the retail industry are expanding replenishment force, even the Christmas year-end demand also placed an early order to grab the cabin, driven by the scarcity of supply and strong demand, freight rates rose month by month to record high, Maersk and many other carriers have started to raise the surcharges in August, the market rumors of September U.S. line tariff increase is brewing to expand, at least a thousand U.S. dollars jump.

Maersk's latest report pointed out that the first three to four weeks of the Golden Week holiday is the peak shipping period, resulting in delays on most major routes, coupled with the recent recurrence of congestion at ports in the Asia-Pacific region, is expected to expand the impact of this year's Golden Week, the impact of the most serious three regions for North America, Asia Pacific, Northern Europe. In order to ensure that there is sufficient capacity for delivery, Home Depot chartered a container ship dedicated to the delivery of their own goods; Amazon is to large shipping companies chartered to evacuate the second half of the festive business opportunities.