Container marine market welcomes the busiest period

As the peak season on container marine market comes ahead of schedule, will tight containers appear again? According to recent public data from major ship operators, carriers were trying to add millions of new containers to solve the problem of serious capacity crunch, but as shipping market enters the busiest period, these containers have showed signs of being stuck in the port again. Lee Bridgett, an analyst at IHS MARKIT, believed that demand for containers has far exceeded capacity as supply chains continue to deteriorate, ongoing congestion at other ports around the world and low return rates for containers returning to Asia.

It was estimated that about 12% of the world's container ships stay outside crowded ports for several weeks longer than normal, while inland distribution, especially in the United States, was still hampered by a lack of trains, truck drivers and limited storage space. In Los Angeles, for example, 40% of containers have to be transported by rail, but only about half were loaded every day.