Cancun, Qroo. The crisis due to the lack of containers and the increase in logistics freight costs worldwide will continue, at least until 2023, a problem that will be passed on to consumers with the rise in the prices of products, goods and services, which threatens to have an impact. inflationary of up to double digits, warned industrialists and transporters.
Shipping costs have increased more than 1,000% during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a carrier paid $ 1,500 for a 40-foot container, but now the price ranges from $ 18,000 in the Pacific zone to up to $ 25,000 if it crosses the Panama Canal, said Bernardo Mercado Deverdun, commercial director of Grupo Naviero Baja Ferries.
Participating in the 21 Forum of the National Association of Private Carriers (ANTP), he explained that 37 container ships were anchored off the adjacent ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in recent days, whose number has been the highest since February, when 40 units were waiting there.
“The outlook is quite uncertain for all of 2022, there is no injection of new ships… the biggest challenge will continue to be to vent the cargo from the ports with sufficient transport and reception capacity in warehouses to achieve the release of the equipment quickly enough for the ships to keep flowing, “he said.
Alex Theissen, president of the National Association of Private Transport (ANTP), mentioned: “Now a piece of your logistics chain costs twice as much, and there is no one who can stop because everyone wants to move their goods and there is not enough supply of containers. no movement, and the consequence is direct, that piece of the chain will cost more and will translate into an increase in prices because you pass it on to the final consumer ”.
However, industrialists face major problems such as the lack of the rule of law, insecurity, legal uncertainty and blockades such as those recently occurred on the train tracks in Michoacán that took almost three months, the longest in recent years.
In this regard, Iker de Luisa, general director of the Mexican Railway Association (AMF), lamented that security and roadblocks are very costly issues for businessmen, still unresolved and with great obstacles for both modes of transport. transport.
The representative of the railroads accused that the government of Andrés Manuel López “is doing nothing” to attract investments from companies established in China to Mexico, after the rise in logistics costs and the strengthening of the North American region.
“How are we going to attract the investments that supposedly in China already in the United States, their American plants already see it with a very complicated and high logistical cost, they want to bring those investments to the T-MEC zone, because it turns out that in this approach to the industrial plants no one is working on it, at least the government does not see a frank activity, “said the director of AMF.
Miguel Elizalde, president of ANPACT, refuted that the sales of trucks and buses are at the same levels as 10 years ago, as a result of the lack of fleet renewal.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx