The global silicone network on October 18: the price of sea freight cooling trend, recently, continued to rise in the price of sea freight appears to cool trend. Shanghai shipping company executives said that in the past four days, a 40-foot containers shipped from China to the United States on the west coast of the freight from slightly above the $8000 to around $15000, fell by almost half, and sent to the east coast of the freight is down from more than $20000 to less than $15000, down more than a quarter.
According to FBX data, the shipping price from China/East Asia to the west Coast of North America was $20,586 /FEU (40-foot container) on September 10, and has now dropped to $16,004 /FEU; Sea freight from China/East Asia to the East Coast of North America also fell to $19,421 /FEU from $22,173 /FEU on Sept. 10.
Recently, the price of shipping between China and the United States has indeed fallen, which undoubtedly makes China's foreign trade business owners who export to the United States "relieved", after all, the early freight has been comparable to the value of the goods.
Analysts believe that with the drop in freight prices, orders from Europe and the United States have dropped from the peak, forcing European and American buyers to shift their orders to supply chains such as India and Southeast Asia. The domestic power shortage has eased, and the price of upstream coal energy may lose the power to continue to rise, and the "double carbon" target will be completed.
