A pre-Lunar New Year cargo rush and bad weather causing vessel bunching are congesting major Asian ports, leading to berthing delays of up to five days, carriers and forwarders said.<\/p>\n
The worst affected ports include Shanghai, Tokyo, Ningbo, Busan and Manila, although the length of the delays varies by container line, shipping executives told the Journal of Commerce. The congestion comes as European and North American shippers rush imports ahead of factory activity slowing down for 15 days of Lunar New Year celebrations starting Jan. 29.<\/p>\n
Ocean Network Express said it is facing operational constraints in Tokyo because the port is \u201cat full capacity\u201d and berths are congested at its capital port and others in Japan, impacting intra-Asia services along with those operating the major east-west trades.<\/p>\n
Congestion is also affecting other ports in Japan, which is affecting intra-Asia and east-west services, the carrier\u2019s sailing schedules showed last week.<\/p>\n
The carrier has been forced to skip calls at Keelung and Kaohsiung by the 1,708-TEU Swan River Bridge operating on its Japan-Vietnam-Haiphong service to help restore schedule reliability after the ship was five days late berthing at Tokyo last week.<\/p>\n
Forwarders said the delays in Tokyo and other ports in Japan have been largely caused by a pre-holiday cargo rush before ports and shipping company offices close from Dec. 27 for the New Year festive break. They are not scheduled to re-open until Jan. 6, carriers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Tokyo, we are closely monitoring terminal operations as year-end closures approach. ONE has plans in place to minimize potential impacts on our services,\u201d a spokesperson for the carrier told the Journal of Commerce.<\/p>\n
Congestion extends to northern China<\/p>\n
Shanghai and Ningbo are affected by weather-related delays including strong winds and fog. The current delays have been compounded in Shanghai after its Yangshan deep-water port, about 20 miles offshore from Pudong, had to close due to typhoon Kong-rey in early November.<\/p>\n
Kuehne + Nagel said there was heavy berth congestion in Yangshan with ships either delayed or having to wait up to five days last week due to the earlier typhoon-related closure. ONE said the delays at Yangshan were also caused by high yard density.<\/p>\n
At Shanghai\u2019s Waigaoqiao container terminals in Pudong about 20 miles from downtown Shanghai, the average seven-day vessel waiting time is nearly three days due to heavy berth congestion at all terminals, according to K+N\u2019s visibility platform SeaExplorer.<\/p>\n
\u201cNingbo is facing approximately 1.5 days of waiting time, mainly caused by peak season congestion and weather factors,\u201d the ONE spokesperson told the Journal of Commerce.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is improving at Shanghai and Ningbo after the typhoon, but the seasonal weather is causing delays, which is typical for this time of year,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n
ONE also highlighted port-congestion-related delays at Busan, Manila and Cat Lai port in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for service disruption and delayed sailings.<\/p>\n
FIBS Logistics said Busan is experiencing berthing waits of approximately two days due to vessel bunching and ships arriving late from previous ports. OOCL said Busan has had \u201cwinter challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n
Details please refer to the JOC news.<\/em><\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Wallis, K. (2024a, December 16). Lunar cargo rush, poor weather clog major Asia Ports<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/lunar-cargo-rush-poor-weather-clog-major-asia-ports-5906170<\/p>\n A pre-Lunar New Year cargo rush and bad weather causing vessel bunching are congesting major Asian ports, leading to berthing delays of up to five days, carriers and forwarders said. The worst affected ports include Shanghai, Tokyo, Ningbo, Busan and Manila, although the length of the delays varies by container line, shipping executives told the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[90,84],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-ports","tag-maritime"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}