18/3/2022

Dear Valued Client,

Please see our below Market Update. 

CURRENT CHINA COVID SITUATION

Due to the rising covid situations in China, our major offices in China operate as below.

            Half work from home, half in the office (16^th March – 18^th March)

• Shanghai office:            Half work from home, half in the office (16^th March – 18^th March)
•  Shenzhen office:          All work from home (14^th March – 20^th March)
• Hong Kong office:       Half work from home, half in the office (7^th Feb – 31^st March) it’s almost certain that WFH has to be extended until further notice
• Xiamen office:             Normal Operations  
• Ningbo office:             Normal Operations
• Qingdao office:          Normal Operations

Shanghai, the situation deteriorates this week, with half-staff WFH for a short period of time.

Shenzhen, Government regulations were announced last Sunday, commencing Monday all public transport would be suspended and citizens must stay at home. Trucking restrictions for vehicles traveling in and out of Shenzhen remain in effect and could slow the supply chain, since no cargo from outside the restricted area can enter.

Port Operations (Both Yantian and Shekou) operate as normal. FCL trucker can proceed to container loading and delivery FCL container into the terminal as usual. Trucks outside of Shenzhen are unable to enter the city and cross-border shipments from Shenzhen to Hong Kong are not going anywhere unless they are considered “essential.”

All warehouses service in Shenzhen have been suspended, value-added services and consolidation in Shenzhen Warehouse will be affected. Majority of the co-loaders have temporary transferred LCL/Consolidation business to Guangzhou warehouse and arrange FCL export from Guangzhou Port or Shenzhen Port or Hongkong.

As the situation is changing rapidly, we will closely monitor the situation and keep you posted.

As always BR International is working very hard with our Chinese partners to ensure that disruptions to your services are kept to an absolute minimum.

 

NEW ZEALAND LOCAL CARTAGE INCREASES

Effective the 1^st of April 2022, BRi New Zealand will be increasing our local cartage charges by the following quantum’s, due to increased fuel and road compliance costs incurred here in New Zealand:

Auckland Metro - LCL: Increase of NZD 4.00 per w/m, and NZD 4.00 to the minimum to be applied to the current rates.

Auckland Metro - Airfreight: Increase of NZD 0.04 per kg, and NZD 4.00 to the minimum to be applied to the current rates.

Cartage outside of Auckland: Spot rates will be adjusted as quoted accordingly

 

AUSTRLAIAN IMPORT (IMP) and EXPORT (EXP) LCL GENERAL RATE INCREASE (GRI) AND INCREASE TO THE AUSTRALIAN WHARF INFRASTRUCTURE FEE (WIF)

We have received notifications from our LCL service partners that effective the 1^st of April 2022, they will be applying a GRI and an increase on the current WIF on LCL which will be applied by the following quantum’s, as per BRi’s policy these will be passed on as disbursed accordingly.

Effective ETD	Mode	Charge Item	Origin CFS	Destination Ports & Points Served Via	Announced Amount
1st April 2022	Ocean	GRI	Adelaide, Brisbane	Auckland	AUD 30 w/m
1st April 2022	Ocean	GRI	Sydney, Melbourne, Freemantle	Auckland	AUD 40 w/m
1st April 2022	Ocean	GRI	Brisbane	Auckland	AUD 40 w/m
1st April 2022	Ocean	GRI	Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle	Lyttleton	AUD 10 w/m
1st April 2022	Ocean	GRI	Sydney	Lyttleton	AUD 20 w/m

 

Effective ETD	Mode	Charge Item	Origin CFS	Destination Ports & Points Served Via	New Amount
ETA 1April 2022	Import	WIF	All Origins	Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle, Adelaide	AUD 7.50 w/m
ETD 1 April 2022	Export	WIF	Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle, Adelaide	All Destinations	AUD 7.50 w/m

 

Effective ETD	Mode	Charge Item	Origin /via	Destination Ports & Points Served Via	Amount per cbm/tonne (min 1cbm)
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	Auckland and via	Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,	USD 10 w/m
1April 2022	Export	GRI	Auckland and via	Singapore	USD 10 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	Auckland and via	Hong Kong	USD 15 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	Canada	USD 65 w/m
10 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	United States of America	USD 40 w/m
10 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	Honolulu	USD 40 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	Apia, Nukualofa	USD 19 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	Lautoka, Suva	USD 26 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	Papeete, Port Vila, Santo	USD 10 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	Noumea	USD 5 w/m
1 April 2022	Export	GRI	New Zealand	London Gateway/Tilbury	-USD 60 w/m

CURRENT AUSTRLAIAN AIRFEIGHT CAPACITY  

As we begin to see increased flights Trans-Tasman, unfortunately does not mean we are experiencing any increased airfreight capacity at the moment.

Effectively the increased flights are passenger not freighter services, and increased flights are inline with the increased passenger demand as the Travel bubble with Australia continues to expand.

Airline cargo policies see priority allocated to passenger freight before general cargo on passenger flights, so the much need cargo capacity increases the market awaits will only occur with an increase of cargo flights which have not yet occurred.

The ongoing imbalance of the airlines ability to provide enough space to the market to satisfy the markets current demand remains - So this also provides the airlines the ability to retain their current pricing levels as demand continues to outstrip supply.

We will be continuing to monitor this closely and will keep you update or any changes as they occur.

Keeping You Informed!

BRi Logistics Team

 

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