Heavy news! Nearly 3,400 ships were forced to change their routes! Diamond cabins are here!
Date：2024-05-16 13:59:00 View：
Freight forwarder, everything in the past is a lesson!
Ship owners, every pain point is a business opportunity!
Recently, according to the Russian Satellite News Agency, Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said in a speech to the Egyptian Parliament on the 13th:
Since November 2023, escalating tensions in the Red Sea have forced nearly 3,395 ships to change routes and sail to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa instead of entering the Suez Canal.
Rabie said cargo ships take much longer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope at the southwestern tip of the African continent, and the Suez Canal is an ideal route for international trade.
△Screenshot of the report from the Russian Satellite News Agency website
The International Monetary Fund recently stated that shipping volume through the Suez Canal in April this year fell by two-thirds compared with last year, exacerbating global trade disruptions.
MSC is the first to launch diamonds priced at 10,000 yuan!
Recently, a large freight forwarding company pointed out that MSC re-introduced the Diamond Tier rate implemented during the epidemic last Friday (10th), "For goods shipped to the western United States, it is US$8,000/FEU, and for goods shipped to the eastern United States, it is US$10,000.
This new freight rate will be effective from May 15th to 31st!
Currently, the freight rate per container on the US West Coast route is around US$4,200, and on the US East Coast route it is about US$5,300.
It seems that MSC's Diamond Guarantee Rate is almost double the current freight rate. Is this the so-called "sky-high price"? Can this be considered "as precious as diamonds"? This is simply a small matter, and it is far from the real "sky-high price"!