Backlog of Freight Growing in China

The party has apparently started in China and air and even sea freight carriers are having problems with delays in Chinese ports and airports. Air and ocean freight backlogs are apparently growing in size as Mayday holiday season and Expo 2010 is adding to the problems with getting freight in and out of China at this time. This in turn according to Chinese freight carrier industry reports means inflated trucking services costs and congestion problems for some customers. The security measures being implemented by customs officials in Shanghai are apparently also pretty strict at the moment and this is adding to the delays for some freight shipments. Apparently, dangerous freight that needs to be moved is being allowed to move in a complicated procedure, so customers might want to avoid Shanghai, if at all possible.

The extra security measures are certainly at least partially due to all of the other events occurring in Shanghai at the moment and timing certainly seems to be at least another part of the problems customers are having with moving freight in and out of China. Hopefully, they figure out away to take care of some of the problems that have been created and get the freight moving a little quicker in China. We probably should expect things to get worse before they get better though, at least until some of the events are finished and things settle down a bit, and then we can probably expect them to get to work on the backlog of freight that needs to be transported to destination.