Sellers out of stock are anxious! Popular FBA warehouses in the United States are closed and container ships are parked all over the sea

On the first day of official work, many people received red envelopes, which made them very happy.

Work after the Spring Festival also faces problems of shortages and logistics delays: some sellers are out of stock, and there are still a large number of container ships floating on the waters of California, with mountains of goods on board.

In addition, due to the continuous snowstorm in the United States, freight forwarders said that popular Amazon warehouses were temporarily closed or reduced unloading volume, and most scheduled deliveries were postponed for 1-3 weeks, including popular warehouses such as IND9 and ftw1...

Not enough goods to sell, sellers: 30% of products are out of stock

Many cross-border e-commerce companies have chosen today and yesterday as auspicious days to start work. On the first day of the official start of work, many people received big red envelopes. I don’t know if it is because Guangdong is used to receiving more red envelopes with less money, so some people received such red envelopes. Have you had fun opening the red envelopes? ↓↓

It was supposed to be a happy moment of starting work, but the editor found that sellers were facing a big problem after starting work: out of stock because the goods were still on the way.

Many sellers expressed their own thoughts ↓↓

Seller A said that one-third of his listings were out of stock. The goods shipped by sea at the end of December were not on the shelves yet. The goods that were rushed to be shipped before the New Year were far from enough to sell, mainly because too many goods were still at sea...

Seller B revealed: Although the inventory capacity of new products can now reach 3,000, there is still a serious shortage of stock. Only one-fifth of the stock is left. Some are out of stock or will be out of stock soon. For example, the earliest stock shipped in early January has not yet arrived at the warehouse.

Seller C said that he tried his best to stock up before the New Year every year, but this year there was still not enough goods to sell.

Seller D: Work generally started earlier this year, but I don’t know if suppliers can prepare the goods in time. After all, I and everyone else have a lot of goods to ship.

Snowstorm hits 48 states in the United States , Amazon's popular warehouses are closed

According to foreign media reports, strong snowstorms have hit the United States for several days, and nearly three-quarters of the 48 states of the United States are covered with snow. Texas, which is famous for its dry and hot weather, has experienced a century-long cold snap of -19°C, the lowest temperature in a century. In the extreme cold current in the south, at least 27 people have died.

As of the morning of the 17th local time , 3.36 million people in Texas still suffered power outages. Since the winter storm swept Texas over the weekend, it has caused more than 20 deaths and left tens of thousands of people in darkness and cold. Texas residents are currently experiencing unprecedented catastrophic weather.

A freight forwarder stated that because large areas of the southern, Midwestern and northeastern United States were hit by snowstorms, Amazon warehouses were temporarily closed or reduced unloading volumes, and most of the scheduled deliveries were postponed, most of which were postponed for 1-3 weeks, including popular warehouses such as IND9 and ftw1. Sellers who deliver to relevant Amazon warehouses should always pay attention to the latest news.

Amazon was forced to temporarily shut down some of its facilities in eight states — Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana and Kentucky — due to severe weather, Amazon spokesperson Maria Boschetti told CNBC in a statement.

FedEx said an outage at a shipping hub in Memphis was causing package delays across the U.S. In some cities, the storm had prevented pickups and deliveries, a company spokesman said .

A UPS spokesman also said the company's Worldport package center in Louisville, Kentucky, and another regional center in Dallas were temporarily closed Monday evening due to weather conditions.

Port explosion intensifies! Waiting time = crossing the Pacific

After a happy Spring Festival holiday, sellers who were preparing to ship the first batch of goods after the New Year were hit hard: congestion at US ports has intensified!!!

It is reported that after the Spring Festival holiday, the port congestion in California, the United States, has not only not eased, but has become more and more serious. Container ships are parked in the sea areas of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach.

Foreign media reported that 62 ships were anchored in San Pedro Bay early Wednesday afternoon , including 20 container ships bound for the Port of Los Angeles.

" If we did nothing, we would still have ships anchored in the middle of the summer, " Gene Seroka , executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said at a news conference Wednesday.

“Under normal circumstances, we don’t usually have any container ships at anchor. Before the surge in imports, we would see 10 to 12 container ships at anchor every day at the Port of Los Angeles. Today, we are averaging over 15 container ships working a day. “ Right now, about 15% of the ships that are coming to Los Angeles are going straight to the berth. 85% of the ships are going to anchor, and the average waiting time has been going up. When ships started going back up in November, the time at anchor was about two and a half days. So far in February, the time at anchor is eight days.”

He said container terminals, trucking companies, railways and warehouses were "overloaded".

New video released by the US Coast Guard provides visual evidence of the extent of congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, showing a large number of container ships anchored in San Pedro Bay, California.

“The last cabinet on the ship in the second picture contains my goods.” A eagle-eyed netizen commented under a related tweet.

Coast Guard footage paints the picture, but new data from the Port of Los Angeles and the Southern California Marine Exchange tells the story behind the images.

The data confirms that the historic container ship congestion along the California coast has not really eased.

As of last Thursday, there were 25 container ships at loading berths in Los Angeles and Long Beach , and 32 container ships were waiting to enter the port for unloading at the anchorage. This backlog has basically not improved since the beginning of this year. On February 1, a record high of 40 container ships was set at the anchorage.

The Port of Los Angeles recently began publishing the number of days specific container ships spend at anchor through its platform Signal. The data confirms that some ships are spending nearly as long at anchor as they do crossing the Pacific.

For example, on Thursday, the 6,332-TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) Ever Envoy had been at anchor for 11 days. Other ships that have just docked have been waiting for the same amount of time, such as the 9,400-TEU MSC Romane , which had been at anchor for 12 days on Tuesday. The other three ships, the 11,356-TEU CMA CGM , the 8,452-TEU Ever Liven and the 4,888-TEU NYK, have also been at anchor for 11 days.

Port congestion has a direct impact on product supply, and some goods are now out of stock on shelves in the United States.

Lauren Brand, president of the National Association of Waterfront Employers , testified at a House subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that there are currently about 190,000 truckloads of cargo on ships offshore .

“Right now, there are containers of parts sitting around at manufacturing and assembly sites in the U.S. We’re going to see some of them have scheduling issues as this goes on,” he said .

“I asked a local retailer, Chico’s, if they had certain spring colors. They said ‘no’ because they were stuck at the port,” Brand said.

"We're seeing a decline in the fashion market. Maybe some Valentine's Day merchandise is stuck. We're going to see Easter merchandise get stuck. We're going to see some things actually come in too late to be available. So, there will be economic impacts from consumer goods to manufacturing. "

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