[November Market Update] Transpacific Rates and Space Situation Updates

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Port / Space / Equipment Conditions

(Sourced from the port of Los Angeles Signal data.)

• Manifested cargo sitting on around 80 ships at anchor in the San Pedro Bay → 500,000 TEU
• Manifested cargo due to arrive at the port in WK 46 (between 14 and 20 NOV) → 158,000 TEU, which is 42%↑ year over year
• Manifested cargo due to arrive at the port in WK 47 (between 21 and 27 NOV) → 96,000 TEU, which is 20%↓ year over year

PSW “Emergency Fee” Surcharge

The number of long-dwelling containers has declined 23% in LB since 01 Nov and 14% in LA since 24 Oct, after the port authorities announced the emergency dwell fees ($100 for the first day and rise in $100 increments each subsequent day) due to go into effect 15 Nov. More than 80 vessels are anchored outside the two ports, and 500,000 TEUs sitting on vessels will come flooding into the ports in time for discharging. The challenges to move the containers out of the ports will increase again.

So far, we haven’t received adequate clarification about dwell fees related with IPI cargo. Only Maersk and ONE state they will not pass along to customers for dwell fees due to rail delays.

US railroads no longer limit traffic from LA/LB, but new port fees raise new concerns

BNSF and UP, who metered the number of containers from USWC this summer, now stop the strategy and encourage customers to ship more IPI cargo by rail as a means of easing USWC port congestion. The inland congestion seen in busy intermodal hubs such as Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, and Memphis earlier this year has eased considerably in the past two months. However, LA/LB port authorities are providing less dwell time to railroads(6 days) than to trucks(9 days) before assessing an emergency fee. That will lead to a large gap of storage for the same box when compounding fee is concerned, which may discourage the use of rail.

ONE has informed us to help push any possible LA/LB local bookings to IPI points, providing incentives as waiving COD Charge/Admin fees for these bookings and avoiding possible LA/LB dwell charge.

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