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  • Vietnamese exporters squeezed by Suez blockage

    Vietnamese exporters squeezed by Suez blockage

    The congestion caused by the Suez Canal blockage is delaying the shipment of Vietnamese goods to Europe and the Americas, and the exporters are fretting.

    The owner of a seafood exporting company in the southern province of An Giang is waiting for a five-container ship to pass through the canal on its way to France.

    However, the ongoing congestion will not allow the ship to exit the canal until Friday or Saturday, delaying the shipment by two weeks, exposing the company to fines of 0.3-0.5 percent of the order value.

    This is the first major delivery of the company this year and the owner fears major damage, given the high value of the shipment. He is hoping that the buyer will acknowledge the force majeure circumstance and not impose any fine.

    Many Vietnamese logistics companies are in the same boat after the six-day blockage caused by the mega-ship Ever Given disrupted the global supply chain by jamming the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.

    Even though the ship was moved on Monday, Le Duy Hiep, chairman of the Vietnam Logistics Business Association, said most companies were still seeing their shipments delayed.

    Imports from Europe and the Americas to Vietnam are also being put off, he said.

    “Nearly 400 ships, including those from Vietnam, are queued up at the canal. It will take days to clear all the ships, causing damage to both logistics companies and exporters,” he said.

    Europe is one of Vietnam’s biggest seafood export markets with a value of more than $1 billion last year. The resurgence of Covid-19 in some countries there and the Suez blockage is causing major difficulties for Vietnamese exporters.

    Truong Dinh Hoe, general secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), said that Vietnam and many other countries are short of containers for exports and face surging freight rates, and the Suez blockage could make this go even higher.

    Tran Thanh Hai, deputy head of the export-import department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said that the blockage is a wake-up call for Vietnamese businesses. He urged them to be more careful and prepare for worst-case scenarios.

    For example, transporting goods by train from Vietnam to Germany costs slightly higher than ships, but takes 15-20 days less, and businesses should consider this an alternative option, he said.

    Businesses should also buy the insurance and think of it as part of their regular expenses instead of taking chances, he added.

  • Suez blockage threatens Vietnam trade with Europe, US

    Suez blockage threatens Vietnam trade with Europe, US

    The Suez Canal blockage caused by the Taiwanese container vessel Ever Given is threatening to delay some of Vietnamese exports and imports.

    The longer it lasts the more losses Vietnamese seafood exporters would suffer since they are the one in charge of shipping seafood to their partners, according to Truong Dinh Hoe, general secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

    “Vietnam and many other countries are short of containers for exports and face surging freight rates. The Suez blockage could make freights rise even higher, putting Vietnam’s seafood export firms in difficulty,” he told local media.

    The blockage would temporarily increase Vietnamese exports’ transportation time to the U.S. and Europe by at least one to two weeks since ships have to go around the southern tip of Africa.

    Maersk, a Danish shipping company, said it has three vessels stuck in the canal and 27 others waiting to enter, with two more expected to reach the site on March 28.

    The company has decided not to wait for Ever Given to be extracted and instead redirected its vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding 10-14 days to their itinerary to U.S. ports.

    “In Vietnam, shipping route TP17 from the Cai Mep-Thi Vai Port in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau to the U.S’s east coast, which goes through the Suez Canal, is affected,” a spokesperson for a Vietnamese logistics firm said.

    Multinational electronics companies in Vietnam will be affected if the blockage prolongs since it will delay imports of components.

    Tran Thanh Hai, deputy director of the Agency of Foreign Trade, said the impact of the blockage on Vietnam-Europe trade would depend on the time it takes to dislodge the ship.

    The Ministry of Industry and Trade has instructed Vietnam’s trade office in Egypt to keep it updated on the extrication of the ship.

    On March 23 Ever Given ran aground in one of the world’s busiest waterways. According to the Suez Canal Authority, the ship was unable to keep a straight trajectory due to high winds and a sandstorm that reduced visibility.

    In the morning of March 29, Ever Given was wrenched from the shoreline and set partially afloat again after six days in the ground, according to Inchcape, a British provider of marine services.

  • Evergreen Line launches China-Surabaya service

    Evergreen Line launches China-Surabaya service

    In view of with the increasing market demand resulting from significant trade growth between China and the ASEAN countries, Evergreen Line is to partner with COSCO and China Shipping in launching a joint China-Surabaya Express (CSM) Service. This is Evergreen’s latest initiative to enhance its service on the Intra-Asian trade, the company said in its press release.

    The CSX service will employ four ships of 2,000-2,700 teu, including one each provided by Evergreen and CSCL and the remaining two by COSCO. The first sailing is planned to depart from Qingdao on the 20th of May, with the following the port rotation: Qingdao-Shanghai-Xiamen-Shekou-Pasir Gudang (Malysia)-Singapore-Surabaya (Indonesia)-Singapore-Qingdao.

    This weekly service covers major ports from China in the north to Malaysia and Indonesia in the south, providing regular and convenient links for regional trade and connecting to Evergreen’s global service network via Singapore.

    After the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) was established in 2010, bilateral trade volumes have continued to rise. According to the statistics published by the Gerneral Administration of Customs in the PRC, its import and export trade with ASEAN grew by 8.3% to $480.4 billion in 2014. In addition, the ASEAN community has actively negotiated with China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand to establish the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). It is believed that this significant development will further encourage free trade and have the effect of driving cargo growth within the Intra-Asia trade.

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  • Evergreen to open children’s fashion stores

    Evergreen to open children’s fashion stores

    Evergreen International has secured brand rights to greater China for a portfolio of high profile childresnwear brands.

    Until now, a specialist in menswear, Evergreen targets the upper-middle and high-end segments of mainland China’s market.

    Now the group has secured the rights to Roberto Cavalli Junior, Simonetta and Diesel Kid to distribute children’s wear and accessories in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.

    It has also signed a preliminary agreement with Rykiel Enfant under Sonia Rykiel regarding the proposed distribution of that brand’s children’s wear and accessories in the same markets.

    Separately, Evergreen has signed a letter of intent with Fendi Kids and is currently evaluating opening Fendi Kids monobrand shops and stores-in-stores in Mainland China.

    Last August, the group opened a Roberto Cavalli Junior store at Ocean Terminal in Hong Kong’s Harbour City. The group plans to open about nine new stores to introduce premium brands of children’s wear and accessories into the first- and second-tier cities of mainland China in the first half of this year.

    The locations will include the shopping malls in Chengdu IFS, Qingdao MixCity, Shenzhen MixCity and Qingdao Hisense Plaza.

    It will also open four retail stores for children’s wear and accessories at the shopping mall of the Galaxy Macau resort in the first half of 2015.

    Evergreen says it will continue to negotiate with shopping centre owners with a view to opening more stores in Hong Kong, Macau and first and second tier cities in the mainland in the second half of 2015.

    Chan Yuk Ming, chairman and executive director of Evergreen, said the company is in discussions with other international premium fashion brands about the retailing and wholesaling of their children’s wear and accessories in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China.

    “We believe the group’s new business segment of high-end children’s wear and accessories will further diversify the portfolios of products and brands of its businesses of apparel and accessories, and will leverage the foundation of its existing menswear business, thus will be benefit to the company and its shareholders as a whole.”

    Evergreen currently owns and manages V.E. Delure and Testantin, targeting the markets for high-end business formal and casual men’s wear, the upper-middle fashion casual men’s wear and the high-end children’s wear.

    The group’s strategy is to open self-operated stores in key cities, while penetrating the markets of slower development through distributors. To cope with business expansion and raise operating efficiency, the group has strategically used a combination of self-operated retail stores as well as distributors of varying sizes to cater to different stages of development and target markets for each of its brands.

    As at December 31 2014, the group had 177 self-operated stores and 191 franchised stores in 30 provinces and autonomous regions, covering 171 cities.

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