The LCL services portfolio was expanded with a new route that connects the port of Altamira, Mexico and the port of Santos, Brazil. The benefits of this route are:
- Reliable weekly service schedule
- Consistent, dedicated staff explicitly assigned to this service route
- Flexible processes to provide customer’s tailor-made solutions, as needed
- Full portfolio of value-added service solutions to ensure seamless delivery at the final destination; complimenting ocean portion with ground transportation, customs house service, warehousing and more
- Each country’s’ strong road network provides a seamless connection to key markets throughout Latin America.
As a response to the costumer demand for a reliable service that connects Europe to Mexico, the new LCL service from Hamburg to Veracruz, with a bonded transit to the cities of Puebla and Queretaro was launched.
The Queretaro and Puebla bonded warehouse facilities will provide to the Hamburg-Veracruz LCL service customers the option of freight
consolidation and customs clearing service to save times and costs.
A key benefit of the service is the swift customs clearing
process, which cuts the typical transaction time down from three-five days to
about 24 hours.
The
ongoing congestions at U.S. and European ports are resulting in worsening
terminal blockages and container service delays in China.
Shipping lines are
subsequently skipping port calls at China’s second-tier ports of Qingdao,
Xingang/Tianjin, and Ningbo in a bid to improve schedule reliability and
equipment availability.
As per Maersk Operations Overview, the vessel waiting
time in Long Beach/Los Angeles is 3 to 7 days, while Oakland is 15 to 20 days and
Seattle is 8 to 10 days.
The rail delays and chassis and trucking challenges are
in red in most of the areas.
The already implemented LCL Expedited Services
from China became a reliable service solution to FCL and standard LCL shipments
since February.
We are adding more customers to our LCL Expedited Services and
success story with new wins of customer including Asteel Flash, Dana, DEM,
Electrolock, ETO, Holmbury, JCI, Niagara, Nussbaum and Oxygo etc.
Last but not least, the challenge eventually is not end soon
but a new start when the “Christmas Purchasing Season of Import” begin in next
month or two. We will continue to put focus on securing all available space,
communicate with our valuable customer for per-booking and set up advance
booking window.
OTHELLO is going to Brazil
In May 2021, DACHSER Brazil ASL successfully implemented the OTHELLO
Ocean Export.
A big "thank you" to the BPO implementation team making it
happened and all the staff's patience in attending and completing the training.
The next will be the Ocean Import that is schedule to be implemented in
August 2021.
Based on the market demand, DACHSER will start to launch in
July 2021 a weekly LCL service that connects Altamira, Mexico to Santos, Brazil
and beyond, using the over the road services in both of the countries. The
merchandise arrives at the destination port in 22 days. We are excited the
DACHSER’s LCL service can provide solution for our valuable customer end to end
logistics needs.
A LCL Sales campaign has been running in Brazil handled by
Ms. Priscilla Tilkian and managed by Mr. Carlos Weinberger. They focus on top 10
opportunities every month and take measure of new accounts won and spot quote
customer success story. They have new win top accounts of Lear, Dana, TDK, and Thyssen and will continue to engage customers and add DACHSER LCL services in their
logistic portfolio.
With the shipping industries struggle for the space,
equipment and allocation, LCL service is a great option and alternative of FCL
from Europe to Chile.
It is no secret to anyone
that since 2021 began, shipping an FCL cargo from Europe to the world has
become a challenge. Generally the answer is that there is no space, there is no
tariff or there is a tariff but there is a wait of a month and a half to ship it.
This and the need of
importers in Chile has made them see the LCL product as a solution to the lack
of FCL space of shipping companies.
Now the question would be how do the NVOCC´s do to guarantee
the outputs? With the same thing that we Dachser do when we have periodic FCL
load and we can anticipate a demand and generate reservations months in
advance.
In our own consolidated sevice from Hamburg to
San Antonio, we have seen how this situation has been reflected:
- In the first half of 2021, the consol
Hamburg - San Antonio did 132.75 cbm of consolidated cargo in 6 TEU´s
- In the second half, we did 348.87 cbm and 16
TEU´s. This is an increase of 162% in 1 semester period
- In the consol of week 13 of 2021, we did our
first consol in 20std container with an occupancy of 74% of total container
capacity and in consol of week 15 we did it again in a 20std with an occupancy
rate of 60%
- Both cases the consols gave positive results
for both parts, taking advantage of market situation and tariff, and also
breaking the initial assumption that the only way to do good profits its going a 40std/hc container with more of 60% of occupancy.
- By this moment we are facing and increase in
price of 80%, by January of 2021 we had a rate around Eur 46 wm, and by this
moment tariff is around Eur 83 wm all in net cost.
In the future, we hope that importers will absorb the
increase in the rate, and the volumes shipped of LCL will continue to rise
until a greater capacity of FCL services is seen in the European market, which
so far some ones speak this will regulate in the year 2023.
