–
The port of Hamburg has been crowded in recent weeks. Therefore, large container ships cannot unload their cargo. For example, the Czech company WPC Center allegedly stranded millions of goods in the port.
Almost 25 huge container ships was waiting on Monday for entry into the port of Hamburg. Ships have to wait there for up to 14 days. A German newspaper reported The world.
Currently, only two percent of the world’s container traffic is stuck in Hamburg. “That’s a lot in the North Sea,” the economist thinks Vincent Stamer of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
According to the shipping company HHLA, the slow transport of imports from the Far East to the interior is to blame. According to her, trucks and trains run slowly also because demand is falling. The company claims that everything will improve in the near future.
But there have been fears that even more problems will arise from next Tuesday. There could be a strike by dockers demanding higher wages. This has not happened since the 1970s and would threaten a complete collapse.
But companies that import goods already have problems. “We have goods on ships for several million crowns, which is nowhere and how to fold them,” David Šlambor from the company WPC centrum, which deals with the installation of wood-plastic profiles, told TN.cz. “Last week, there was even a report that they would start claiming compensation, ie parking fees for containers that are stuck in this way,” he added.
“This problem may seem like a trifle, but in the end it causes big problems for the whole economy,” noted Šlambor. “I have been importing goods like this for more than ten years, but the situation in the last month is the worst I have ever experienced. “The closure of Suez or the natural elements last year won’t compare to that,” he thinks.
A giant ship got stuck in the Suez Canal last year:
TN.cz
–
