Concern is mounting over kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso impact of looming US east and Gulf coast port strikes on kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso nation’s airfreight, with e-commerce already hoovering-up capacity as peak season nears.
As reported in kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso Loadstar last week, kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) will finalise contract demands and prep US east and Gulf coast port members for a 1 October strike, should agreement not be reached with employer group kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso United States Maritime Alliance.
That timing has left cargo owners and their partners building-in contingencies for kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso strikes increasingly worried over kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso viability of kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso obvious solution, airfreight.
US Airforwarders Association executive director Brandon Fried said the threat of the port strike had already led kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso shippers moving volumes kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso west coast gateways, and the strike now had “the potential kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso be extremely disruptive” for the US airfreight sector.
“Port strikes will inevitability lead kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso a spike in airfreight activity,” Mr Fried told The Loadstar. “This will largely be as a consequence of importers and beneficial cargo owners’ concerns about the holiday season.
“But its timing could not be worse, because if ocean-going cargo does start flying, it will expose another mounting concern in airfreight: e-commerce.”
DHL’s E-Commerce Trends Report has warned logistics providers they could expect a 12-fold increase in online orders by 2030, amounting kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso an extra .5trn in global trade.
Spearheading this surging trend are emergent Chinese platforms Shein and Temu, which in 12 months of operating have found themselves shifting four- and five-times as much as Chinese legacy outfit Alibaba, with Shein alone responsible for some 20% of all global fast-fashion sales.
“Spiking e-commerce demand has been gobbling up a lot of kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso available [air] capacity into kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso US in recent months,” Mr Fried continued. “So, all these factors coming together could leave airfreight exposed.
“If e-commerce demand remains high [and no one The Loadstar has spoken kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso believes it will fall off in the near future] and you have the strikes, then all you need is a big product roll-out for a capacity crisis.”
Source: https://theloadstar.com/port-strikes-would-expose-airfreights-vulnerability-kết quả dữ liệu bongdaso-a-capacity-crisis/
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