Reasons for International Ocean Freight Delay and Port Congestion
Logistics News
22-Aug-2023
What causes delays and detention of international ocean freight? Here are some reasons for delays and detention of international ocean transportation. JCtrans has rich domestic and international logistics and trade resources, aiming to build a centralized, secure, and fast logistics transaction settlement platform. Traders can look for freight forwarders to expand their procurement channels on this platform, while freight agents provide logistics solutions and services to global partners to establish long-term cooperative relationships.
Delays due to incorrect documentation: For example, bill of lading reaches the consignee or its bank with differences in address, route, cargo details or shipping details. Additionally, for example, trade documents submitted to the destination customs, such as commercial invoices and certificates of origin, are incorrect, and the customs require modification of the documents before customs clearance of the goods.
At this point, correction by the international ocean freight shipping company or customs may cause a delay. At this time, the container may have already arrived at the destination port and has not been cleared. Because the consignee cannot receive the delivery note unless it is classified as an incorrect document issue, the container may be detained and may even lead to port storage.
Delays caused by late submission of documents: It may also be necessary to have required documents, such as bill of lading, certificate of origin, packing list, etc., which cannot reach the consignee in time. For various reasons, the shipper did not plan the original document processing process in advance until the last moment to collect all documents.
Delays caused by lost documents: There is a very common problem that documents may be lost during transportation due to express delivery. Most of the problems may be due to the loss of the original bill of lading. The original bill of lading has been lost in several steps. Some steps may take several days to complete, especially when there is bank guarantee. Sometimes, international ocean transportation customers may not be able to get 200% or 300% of the required value of goods on the transportation hotline. Delays caused by customs inspections are common in this case, and there is no fixed time limit for such inspections. Delays encountered by various countries in customs and container inspections may cause demurrage fees, detention and storage.
Because the international ocean freight company did not correctly endorse the bill of lading, the original bill of lading was received, so the release of the destination goods may also be delayed. This is very common. For example, suppose a document is shipped with a "shipper's order", and the shipper does not recognize the original bill of lading, and only notices it when the original document is returned at the destination. That is to say, the original bill of lading must be returned to the shipper for their recognition and return.
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