Before a container is difficult to find, freight prices soared all the way, supply chain disruption is the main problem of many foreign trade enterprises export difficult.

But since October, the sea freight, which has risen for 15 months in a row, has declined for the first time, and Yiwu has also ushered in a wave of shipment.

Zhejiang Yiwu: collection card queue, warehouse burst warehouse, export enterprises delivery busy

Yiwu port has a total storage area of 430,000 square meters, and 1/3 of the goods purchased from Yiwu market are shipped to the world from here.

Every September and October is the peak season of yiwu's foreign trade orders and shipments. In Yiwu port, the collection trucks full of goods shuttle back and forth, a busy scene. A truck driver waiting to load told reporters that he had come here the night before in line.

Truck driver: I have been waiting for more than ten hours since last night. Because there are too many cars here, I came earlier or I came late.

While workers are loading goods around the clock, the warehouse is still full, with a steady stream of new shipments from the factory. Kaiya international freight forwarding company's warehouse director told reporters that since this year, warehouse shipments exploded, every week to burst warehouse.

Zhao Jingyun, manager of cross-border logistics Division of a freight forwarding company in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, said: Every week, it is still empty today. If it is usually piled outside the door, it can only be loaded.

In the old express route to the US, you might load a dozen containers a week. Now I might load 25 containers a week and work 24 hours to finish it. The quantity has also increased, maybe tripled.

In particular, during the National Day, freight rate callback, a large number of early backlog of delivery demand concentrated release, not only that, wait-and-see customers also began to actively order. At Yiwu International Trade City, Wei Shirong, who sells pet products, has just placed an order.

Wei Shirong, operator of Yiwu International Trade City: Since last month, the price of our beautiful line has decreased greatly, from more than $30,000 to more than $20,000. The freight has been reduced, and the shipping space has also been available. Therefore, now the customer starts to urge us to timely deliver the goods to him, and now the orders are more than before, so we will not be concerned about the freight.

Yiwu, Zhejiang province: "Yixin Europe" freight train to increase the number of private enterprises to buy bags and boats to go to sea

At present, the congestion of foreign ports has not been alleviated, although the freight rate has been adjusted back for a short time, but it is still at a high level, and the shortage of containers in the international maritime market also occurs from time to time. In this regard, many enterprises are actively seeking a way out.

The 1000th China-Europe freight train delivered by Yiwu platform this year is expected to arrive in Minsk, capital of Belarus, in about 15 days, full of 100 teUs of auto parts.

On the same day, a total of 6 trains of China-Europe freight train started running on the Yiwu platform, carrying a batch of cargoes such as auto parts, Christmas supplies and electronic products, which were delivered before Christmas.

In the yard, the crane is not working, a group of containers are lifted by the gantry crane to the truck board for shipment, the off-site collection trucks lined up in a long queue waiting for entry.

Zhejiang yiwu west depot container team leader of central Europe Wu Xiaodong: the yard turned out to be serving platform turnover of empty containers, all of them are now &heavy (load the cargo container), empty containers went out within three days, put &heavy use, free is now present some of the fields are almost waiting for half a month, waiting to send.

Due to the "difficult to obtain a case" of international shipping, freight increases, shorter cycle, stable freight china-Europe freight train has become a new choice for many foreign trade enterprises.

By October 1, the Yiwu platform of China-Europe freight train has run 1,004 trains and shipped 82,800 TEUs, with a year-on-year growth of 57.7%.

But the rapid growth of china-Europe trains is still not enough to provide an alternative to sea freight. The transport volume of china-Europe freight trains is relatively limited, and destinations are limited to countries along the routes.

For this, partial trader finds another way, still groped out "charter boat goes to sea" new mode. The change of freight agent to ship owner, the consolidation of goods and the creation of exclusive routes have effectively alleviated the logistics and cost problems faced by some foreign trade enterprises in Yiwu.

Jin Lixian, president of a freight forwarding company in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, said: my advantage is that I have my own boxes. We have ordered 10,000 boxes directly from CIMC. Now the small boat can solve its capacity, greatly reducing the pressure of the ship, but also greatly alleviating the current production enterprises export difficult problem.