无船承运人转危为安

NVOs right the ship

快乐的时光又回来了,至少对无船承运人而言是如此.2012年以后,无船承运人在泛太平洋贸易航线上的市场份额一度下跌.如今,随着他们在全球各大贸易航线实现增长,泛太平洋航线上的份额也水涨船高.

They may never regain their past glory in the U.S., but non-vessel-operating common carriers are staging a comeback. Happy days are here again, at least for non-vessel-operating common carriers. After 2012 when their market share dropped in the trans-Pacific trade, NVOs are seeing that share rebound in line with the growth they are seeing on other global trade lanes. NVOs handled 5.2 percent more containerized volume last year than in 2012 in the trans-Pacific, and their share of overall cargo in the trade inched up by a percentage point to 36 percent, according to PIERS, the data division of JOC Group. NVOs made headway in winning business back, especially among small and medium-sized importers. Large global logistics providers that operate as NVOs also say they are gaining share among small and mediumsized shippers in those trades. When ocean carriers slashed ship capacity in 2010 and 2011 to boost freight rates, beneficial cargo owners turned to NVOs to find space for their U.S. imports. Capacity was so tight that carriers were holding U.S.-bound cargo at many Chinese ports for later voyages. The BCOs' hunt for vessel capacity helped boost NVOs' share of the transPacific container trade to 39 percent in 2011. But in 2012, when carriers again deployed more ships in the trade and rates fell, NVOs' market share declined to 35 percent. In the trans-Atlantic trade, the NVO share of volumes is far more on the import leg than on the export leg because U.S. East Coast exports are so heavily dominated by agricultural products and chemicals.