For more than two years the world of maritime transport has been suffering from unprecedented port congestion, mainly affecting the major world ports in China, Europe and the USA. With the resumption of activity in China, the situation is becoming increasingly tense, particularly in the USA. The waiting time for ships in various ports is getting longer, resulting in an increase in transit time.
20% of the world's fleet is currently waiting off the world's largest ports. Port congestion continues to grow. While at the beginning of the year, various analyses predicted a decongestion for the end of the first half of the year, today we expect to wait until 2023 to hope for the beginning of a return to normal. The factors that we know well today, the health crisis, the confinements in China and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, continue to exacerbate the tensions in the international supply chain.
The congestion at the Le Havre TNMSC terminal makes it difficult to manage appointments and leads to an average waiting time of between 4 and 6 hours to load or unload road carriers.
The recent sanctions applied by the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada against Russia are causing a number of disruptions around the world, particularly in the global supply chain.
Described by experts as a record year, 2021 was marked by a supply chain in difficulty due to significant growth in developed countries, unprecedented volumes of containers handled and the global health crisis. In this context, what is the perspectives for 2022?