Both money and goods lost! The demurrage fee is as high as 900,000 yuan. Will the seller suffer from the failure of the freight forwarder?

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It is learned that yesterday, Amazon Global Selling released the "Gathering Momentum and Bravely Expanding New Opportunities—2022 China's Export Cross-border E- commerce Industry Cluster Development White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper").

According to the white paper, in today's world economic environment full of uncertainty, China's cross-border e-commerce export industry has still demonstrated strong resilience and maintained a stable development trend. As a new form of foreign trade export, it is gradually releasing new potential.

However, amid this promising development trend, the frequent problems of freight forwarding have become a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of cross-border sellers.

Recently, after a Shenzhen freight forwarder had its goods seized due to illegal declaration, resulting in high container storage fees and requiring the seller to "pay the bill" for it, another Shenzhen freight forwarding company has encountered problems.

It is learned that according to the seller's disclosure, a US FBA first-leg company in Pinghu, Shenzhen, had problems with capital turnover, which resulted in high demurrage fees for 8 containers at US ports , but the first-leg company was unwilling and unable to bear the high demurrage fees.

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It is reported that the first-leg company has received commissions from many freight forwarders, and the largest freight forwarder has 200 cubic meters of cargo . Among them, two cabinets with lower costs have been paid for by a second-generation company and placed in an overseas warehouse. However, the owners of this batch of goods not only have to bear the demurrage fee, but also have to pay the freight again before the goods can be arranged for delivery in the US overseas warehouse.

As of now, there are still 6 containers that have not been taken out of the port , and the demurrage fee has reached US$125,600 ( approximately RMB 916,500 based on today's US dollar exchange rate of 7.29).

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It is learned that the departure ports of these 6 containers are all Yantian Port, and the destination ports are New York and Los Angeles respectively . They basically arrived at the destination ports in mid-August. Among them, 4 containers have been detained at the port for more than 70 days, and the demurrage fees are still increasing.

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It is worth noting that the largest owner of this batch of goods owed Dazhuang more than 1.3 million in freight and was reluctant to pay. As a result, Dazhuang was unable to handle the containers in the United States due to financial constraints, causing the small owners to "lose freight and lose goods" , suffering heavy losses.

After receiving this information, many sellers in the sellers’ communication group complained: the freight forwarders are unable to afford the demurrage fees, and may have to “crowdfund” again, and the sellers will be the ones who suffer in the end .

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However, some conscientious freight forwarding colleagues also said that in fact, the collapse of these freight forwarding companies is sometimes not accidental, but there are traces to follow :

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