Bangladesh Airport & Seaport Weekly Market update // 07.09.2021

Seaport of Bangladesh

Customer Advisory 7th September 2021

Subject: Chittagong, Bangladesh (BDCGP) Port Update and Impact on Supply Chain due to COVID‐19

Dear valued customer,

Due to the pandemic, Coronavirus (COVID‐19) has had a huge impact on the Global Supply Chain. Please find below the details of Chittagong, Bangladesh's current port situation:

 Port Operations:

•   Present berthing congestion/waiting time at anchorage is around 2 days.

•   As of today, 7th Sep 2021, 5 container vessels are waiting in the queue and 11container vessels at the berth.

  (GCB=5, CCT=2, NCT=4) against of 13Container vessels berth /quota

•  Truck unloading problem is almost solved; most CFS is complete with cargoes waiting for the plan to ship out, Again.

  Most carriers are again in an equipment crisis with the mother space issue.

•   Last week (CMB=10, SIN=8, PKL=4, TPP=1, INKRI=0, SHAI=3, HONG=0), port-bound vessels got berthed.

•   Some MLOs are bringing their own feeder for SIN and trying to avoid using non‐partner FVSL, which is making.

  Delay ETD of those MLOs (CMA, OOCL, YML, ONE & MSL).

•   SGSIN/MYPKG/MYTPP/LKCMB has no berthing congestion of vessels.

•   Depot had been bringing FCL containers from CPA by instruction to reduce the yard pressure with import.

  Volume, but right now, BGMEA has given complained about taking those boxes from depot premises instead of

  CPA.

•   Force shipment is still continuing volume to maintain the optimum empty level at the CPA yard.

•   Labor is available at the port now.

   Customs:

  •   Port & Customs official is working with a roster basis for the lockdown period.

  •   MLO is continuing their office time (10am‐3pm) for issuing delivery orders as per banking timing and export

    The official is attending on a roster basis to perform only export permission activities.

     Blank Sailing of the Carriers:
     The following are the details of a few blank sailings of the carriers:

     The Ocean Alliance (CMA CGM, COSCO, OOCL & Evergreen):
     Blank Sailing of (FAL 8 SERVICE) (from SIN to ANTWERP, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM) in Wk_36, 2021

    Model

•   Blank Sailing of (MEX2 SERVICE) (from SIN to PIRAEUS, LA SPEZIA, GENOA, FOS, VALENCIA) in Wk_36, 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (Phoenician Express SERVICE) (from SIN to MALTA, KOPER, TRIESTE, RIJEKA) in Wk_37, 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (New North Europe Med Oceania SERVICE) (from CMB, SIN to GIOIA TAURO, VALENCIA, LONDON GATEWAY, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, ANTWERP, LE HAVRE) in Wk_35, 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (Bosphorus Express SERVICE) (from SIN to PORT SAID, IZMIT, ISTANBUL, CONSTANZA, ODESSA) in Wk_37, 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (JAX SERVICE) (from SIN to LOS ANGELES) in Wk_37, 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (China India Middle East Express 1 SERVICE) (from SIN to JEBEL ALI, KHALIFA BIN

  SALMAN PORT, DAMMAM, SOHAR) in Wk_36, 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (Red Sea Exp( RAX 2) SERVICE) (from SIN to DJIBOUTI, JEDDAH, AQABA) in Wk_37, 38

  2021

•   Blank Sailing of (Asia South America East Coast 2 SERVICE) (from SIN to ITAGUAI, SANTOS,

  PARANAGUA, ITAPOA) in Wk_37 ,2021

•   Blank Sailing of (KIX SERVICE) (from PKL to AUCKLAND, LYTTELTON, WELLINGTON) in Wk_35,2021

•   Blank Sailing of (Pacific East Coast 2 SERVICE) (from SIN to MANZANILLO, BALBOA, CARTAGENA,

  KINGSTON, CAUCEDO) in Wk_36 ,2021

•   Blank Sailing of (Pacific East Coast 2 SERVICE) (from SIN to BUSAN, MANZANILLO, LAZARO,

  CARDENAS, BUENAVENTURA, CALLAO) in Wk_36 ,2021

•   Blank Sailing of (KCM SERVICE) (from SIN to HONG KONG, BUSAN) in Wk_37 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (BBX2 SERVICE) (from SIN to HO CHI MINH CITY) in Wk_37 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (KCM2 SERVICE) (from SIN to SHEKOU, SUBIC BAY, CEBU) in Wk_36, 38 2021

•   Blank Sailing of (West Africa Express SERVICE) (from SIN to COTONOU, ABIDJAN) in Wk_37 2021

The Alliance (Hapag, ONE, YML & HMM):

Blank sailing of EC5 services (from Singapore, Colombo to HALIFAX, NEWYORK, SAVANNAH, JACKSONVILLE, NORFOLK) in Wk_ 36, 38 2021
Blank sailing of PS3 services (from Singapore to LAX, LGB, OAK) in Wk_ 36, 39 2021
Blank sailing of FFE services (from Singapore to Rotterdam, Hamburg, Le Havre, Southampton) in Wk_36, 2021

Blank sailing of FE2 services (from Colombo to SOUTHAMPTON, Le Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam) in Wk_39 2021
Blank sailing of FE5 services (from Singapore, Colombo to Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, London gateway) in Wk_37, 38, 2021

Blank sailing of PN2 services (from Singapore to TACOMA, VANCOUVER) in Wk_ 36, 2021
Blank sailing of PS7 services (from Singapore to LONG BEACH, CA, OAKLAND) in Wk_ 37, 2021 Blank sailing of AS2 services (from Singapore to Santos, Paranagua, NAVEGANTES, SC, MONTEVIDEO, BUENOS AIRES, RIO GRANDE) in Wk_ 37, 2021
Blank sailing of MD1 services (from Singapore to Damietta, Barcelona, Valencia, Tanger Med) in Wk_36, 2021
Blank sailing of MD2 services (from Singapore to PIRAEUS, GENOA, La‐Spezia, FOS SUR MAR) in Wk_36, 38 2021

•   Blank sailing of MD3 services (from Singapore to JEDDAH, ISTANBUL, IZMIT, ALIAGA, MERSIN) in Wk_36, 37, 38 2021

•   Blank sailing of EC4 services (from Singapore to NEW YORK, NORFOLK, SAVANNAH, CHARLESTON) in Wk_ 37, 2021

•   Blank sailing of IN2 services (from Colombo to INMUN, NEW YORK, NORFOLK, SAVANNAH, CHARLESTON) in Wk_36 2021

 2M (Maersk/Safmarine/MSC):

•   Blank sailing of AE11 services (from Singapore to Barcelona, Valencia) in Wk_36, 38 2021

•   Blank sailing of AE11 services (from Singapore, GIOIA TAURO) in Wk_36, 38 2021

 IEX (YML, OOCL, COSCO, ONE & HAPAG)

•   Blank sailing of IEX services (from Colombo, Damietta to Barcelona, Valencia, Tanger Med) in Wk_37 2021

•   Blank sailing of IEX services (from Colombo, Piraeus to GENOA, La‐Spezia, FOS SUR MAR) in Wk_37 2021

   Berthing status & delays:
   Geared – 2 days

   Gearless – 2/3 days  Yard Situation & Congestion:

   Import FCL yard is going with a capacity of the yard with the average decreased volume.  Overall import volume has increased slightly at CPA this week.
   On average, 75% of shipment is being delivered.

   ICD Issue:

  Currently, ICD, Dhaka bound stock is 55teus against the capacity of 1774teus. Recently after discharging from vsl an import container, no need to wait to come on assignment for loading on the wagon and but needs to wait a good time for not having enough container for Dhaka ICD inbound to fill the rail wagon. Containers coming at Marshall yard as export must wait a good time due to the slow import loading from CGP. Nowadays on average, 2/3 trains are going on Dhaka‐Ctg.

 Import:
 Import FCL yard is going with a capacity of the yard with the average decreased volume.

Model

 Overall import volume has increased slightly at CPA this week.  On average 70% shipment is being delivered.

 Traffic Issue:

Heavy rainfall over the last few weeks devastated the port connecting road, making holes here and there. The road is becoming jam-packed any time when many more trailers use this road and regular transport time also got delayed by (1‐2)hours. Besides, on Thursday, due to import on chassis and pressure of passenger vehicle depot lying on this road, they have been struggling to feed their export cargoes on Friday sailing vessels.

 Lockdown Issues:
 No lockdown exists right now

 Other Issues:

•   Equipment of CMA is going extremely shortage, and ONE, HAPAG & YML is going balanced stock with demand & supply in the market. Our nominated depot also faces a shortage of ONE, COSCO & HMM.

•   Carrier with slight shortage requested to ask for container requirement prior 3/4days of booking. Some carriers really cannot manage available equipment as per customers' demand in desired CFS.

•   Last week SARERA (18Boxes) got shut out due to the last moment's arrival of containers. We have 4boxes of C&A and OVS, which came after vessel ops closed due to the Dhaka Chittagong highway road Jam-packed situation.

  Thanks 

 

Airport of Bangladesh

Customer Advisory
07 September 2021 DAC Air Market Update

Dear Valued Customer,
Please see below for Dhaka Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport’s (DAC) current situation due to the pandemic of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
We are continuously monitoring the market and will keep you posted accordingly.

General Update:

• Bangladesh lifted all lockdown restrictions on 19 August, but the restrictions/lockdowns may be imposed again if the Covid-19 infections rise in the country.

Capacity Change:

• SV will continue triple daily pax flights.

• QR is operating daily 3 PAX flights; Freighters to back in operations (4 of them are dedicated.

  To ITX by QR headquarter).

• EK will continue 14x PAX flights.

• EY operates daily Pax flights and arranges ad-hoc freighters to clear the backlog.

• TK will operate 3x weekly freighters based on market demand and 10x pax flights.

  But their 90% space is granted/sold under agreement from HDQ.

• 7L will resume freighters as scheduled on D2, and D5.

• SQ will operate 5x flights weekly.

• CX to operate freighters as scheduled on D2, D4, and D6.

• KU is scheduled to operate on D1, D2, D3, D6, and D7, but they are operating 1 or 2 flights based.

  On pax load. They are operating some charter flights to AMS.

• GF will continue operating daily pax flights, but no onwards for LHR due to flight downgraded

  EX BAH to LHR.

• WY will operate on D2, D6, D7.

  
  

• ET and RU operating weekly two freighters dedicated to ITX. Space Availability & Airport Situation:

• Space is highly critical with the growing demand while market capacity dropped sharply from EY, EK, G9, and KU. All airlines are full till 10th Sep.

• With the construction work in the airport, severe bottleneck/congestion was created in Cargo Village Entry Gate and unloading points that spread out to entire facilities in the airport. The regular handling process and workflow got poorly affected. The situation even worsens while X-Ray the machine got out of order 2-3 times a week.

• Trucks waiting time has been increased by at least 24-36 hrs to get into the airport resulting in flights departing with partial load.

• Dhaka Airport has 7 unloading platforms working out of 15 due to Terminal 3 construction.

• Airlines are requesting to maintain an advance cut-off to avoid the last minute.

• Due to this, many cargoes are offloading from the flights without prior notice, creating huge congestion at the airport. 

 Thanks.

 Colombo Port Update:

 

We would like to share our latest update on the current status in Sri Lanka. 

 

Colombo Port 

 

• Government has announced a country-wide lockdown till September 13th, 2021. 

• Port is facing operational delays due to high yard density and intermittent lousy weather. Consequently, vessel berthing delays, drop in productivity, and slow ITT movement is observed. 

• Plans are discussed for ITT, cargo connections, and cut-off, which are being worked out for each vessel. 

 

ITT (Inter-Terminal Trucking) movement: 

• Total ITT pendency from all 03 Terminals V.V. 27K approx. 

 

TEUs Depot Operation: 

Depot operation & EMR activities continue as usual. We will keep you duly updated on any further developments in this situation. 

 

 

Equipment Update is also given as below:

 

Equipment Figure
Carrier	Market condition	PLLCL Condition
MSL	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
MSC	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
HAPAG	Balance with demand supply	AVAILABLE
ONE	Shortage	Shortage
OOCL	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
YML	Balance with demand supply	AVAILABLE
CMA	Shortage	AVAILABLE
COSCO	AVAILABLE	Shortage
EMC	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
WANHAI	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
SINKOR	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
TRIDENT	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
HMM	AVAILABLE with low demand	Shortage of 40HC
BALTIC	AVAILABLE	AVAILABLE
QC	AVAILABLE	Only 20'

Thanks