58 containers of Vietnamese pepper stuck in Nepal are causing businesses to suffer big losses day by day …
Harvesting pepper in Vietnam. Photo: Mekong Trails.
According to statistics of the Vietnam Pepper Association, 58 containers of pepper stuck in Nepal, mainly transported via shipping lines such as One line, Maersk line, OOCL, RCL and ZIM line.
A company with a container (container) is stuck, said that after the goods arrive at the port, the shipping line will let you lie free for 7-10 days, then apply tariffs.
Specifically: storage fee cont, storage yards for 40 feet cont is 70 USD / cont / day for the first week, the 2nd week is 100 USD / cont / day, from the 3rd week onwards is 170 USD / cont / day. As calculated above, with the storage time of over 3 months, the amount to pay for 1 container 40 feet is about 16,000-17,000 USD.
Knowing the above difficulties of Vietnamese pepper exporting enterprises, on June 26, 2020, the International Pepper Association in association with Vietnam Pepper Association sent a letter to shipping lines requesting assistance. support to minimize the cost of storage cont, storage yards to help businesses.
However, so far, the shipping lines have not responded. This makes enterprises more worried that shipping lines do not support.
A pepper industry trader said that exporters, importers and shipping lines are all victims of the case of 58 containers of Vietnamese pepper trapped in Nepal.
In recent years, businesses with stuck pepper have cooperated with the Embassy of Vietnam in India, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the International Pepper Association, and the Vietnam Pepper Association … knocking on the door of agencies. Government in Nepal for the purpose of pulling these containers out.
Businesses try and save trapped containers first to save themselves and at the same time help shipping lines. By air out, the cont is “dead” there and the shipping company can not move the cont shell.
Another trader added, “At the time of our book booking, the shipping line offered a price in case the business purchases additional storage and storage fees at Birgunj-Nepal port, they charge 70 USD / cont / 7 days. So the cost is about 10 USD / day and at this price, the shipping line is still profitable. Now, because of the force majeure ban of the Nepalese government, they know we have a lot of difficulties and still charge a fee of up to US $ 170 per day. Exporting enterprises are customers of shipping lines; if we go bankrupt, the shipping lines will not be able to transport goods. In my opinion, shipping lines have to reduce up to 95% of the storage fee to be reasonable. With that reduction, the shipping company will not suffer any damage ”.
Thus, up to this point, Vietnamese pepper exporters whose shipments were stuck in Nepal have suffered very bad losses. Especially in the context of global epidemics and the global economic downturn, Vietnamese businesses are in desperate need of sharing the burden of service costs from shipping lines to help exporters partly overcome. hard.
Enterprises also suggest relevant ministries and agencies to take measures to affect shipping lines to share this burden with enterprises.
According to NNVN
