Drewry advises shippers to brace for another year of ocean cargo rate hikes
Freight rates will not normalize until the systemic market disruptions in container shipping, caused by the pandemic, are reduced significantly.
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Shippers may expect a second year of big increases in 2022 for ocean contract rates, says Philip Damas director and head of the supply chain advisors practice at London-based Drewry.
“Challenges of securing ocean capacity amid current logjams and prospects of hugely inflated ocean freight costs in 2022 are forcing logistics buyers to consider radical options,” he says.
According to Damas, freight rates will not normalize until the systemic market disruptions in container shipping, caused by the pandemic, are reduced significantly.
“The crisis has turned the ocean transportation sector into both a seller’s market and an inefficient, unreliable sector,” he says. “Furthermore, shippers pay much more for a deteriorated service—a change which many logistics managers find hard to explain to their company’s leaders.”
Drewry does not see the planned measures to open the West Coast ports’ gate operations 24-hours-a-day as sufficient to solve the current systemic gridlock. Analysts contend that it will take infrastructure and fleet investments by the public and private sectors, improvements in productivity and possibly programs to attract more truck drivers to the sector – at higher wages – to reduce the backlog of shipments and then solve the container supply chain problems.
“At Drewry, we have told our Beneficial Cargo Owner customers to plan for another year of container supply chain shortages and very elevated ocean rates,” concludes Damas.
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