Many ports in the United States are congested, Mason will start to increase prices again, and extrem

Recently, many Amazon sellers are frantically complaining, saying that a group of Mason Clippers they had taken before, and they were still regular ships.

There are also sellers who said that they have sent a batch of goods to the two FBA warehouses of SDF8 and ONT8 in the United States, but after receiving the goods, they have not seen the goods on the shelves normally.

These two sellers are just a microcosm of the predicament that most sellers are facing. Now not only is the delivery time of the shipment not guaranteed, but the receiving time after proper delivery is also not guaranteed.

The reasons for this situation are nothing more than the following nodes:

1. The recent extreme weather in the United States has made it difficult to deliver the end of the journey

According to U.S. News, rare extreme weather broke out in many parts of the United States recently. The "bomb cyclone" descended on the southern and northeastern United States, causing substantial cooling, snowfall and freezing rain in many places in 37 states from the southern to the northeastern United States. In bad weather, the maximum snow thickness in some places can reach 30 cm.

Some U.S. states have shut down highways and thousands of flights have been canceled, forcing shipments that were supposed to be delivered on time to be delayed due to weather problems.

The temporary closure of road traffic this time not only affects the final delivery, but also affects the normal sales of sellers to a large extent. Many sellers are saying that the recent sales volume is less than half of the same period of previous years.

In fact, this is also very understandable. Before everyone is isolated at home by the wind and snow, they will definitely go to the supermarket to purchase necessary materials. The lack of budget and the difficulty of online shopping and distribution will inevitably lead to the recent decline in online shopping demand.

Under the recent two consecutive rounds of super blizzards, hoarding essential household supplies has become a top priority for most families in the United States. Many offline supermarkets in the United States have been looted.

2. The port is super congested

Among all the ports in the United States, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach are the two ports that handle the largest number of cargoes. The throughput also ranks among the top ten in the world.

However, according to the recently released "Global Container Port Efficiency Ranking Report", the cargo handling efficiency of Los Angeles Port and Long Beach Port is basically at the end of the list recently, ranking after 300, even lower than Kenya's Mombasa Port and Port of Long Beach. The port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, which was almost impossible to happen in previous years.

But now it's actually happening.

According to the announcement data released by Maersk the day before yesterday, the current waiting time for container ships at Long Beach Port to unload is about 40 days, and the number of container ships waiting outside Long Beach Port has exceeded 200.

You haven't seen the cargo in the port for a long time, and it should be among these waiting ships.

3. Workers are quarantined

Still at the Port of Long Beach, more than 1,000 workers have tested positive for the new crown in recent days, and the number of daily worker infections continues to rise, according to the Pacific Maritime Association.

Under the status quo of the labor shortage at the port itself, the increase in the number of confirmed workers has undoubtedly added fuel to the fire.

This is just the infection situation at the port. Inside Amazon, the situation is not optimistic. According to the employee infection data recently released by Amazon, a total of more than 20,000 FBA warehouse employees have been diagnosed with the new crown since the outbreak.

Recently, many FBA core transit warehouses including FTW1 and ONT8 have experienced a large number of newly confirmed cases, which undoubtedly seriously affected the inefficient FBA warehouse receiving process.

In addition, according to the latest announcement released by Mason, container space has been very tight recently, and supply and demand have been in an unbalanced state. The quantity of demand is much higher than the quantity of supply. Many secondary carriers have experienced serious overbooking. It is expected that Shipment prices in the second half of January 2022 will continue to see a slight upward revision.
No matter what, you still have to endure it all.

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