Emergency! An accident occurred at a major port in the United States, and all freight forwarders are prohibited from picking up goods!

As one of the most important ports on the West Coast, the Port of Los Angeles ranks third in the import volume of the United States. It was once so crowded during the epidemic that it took nearly two weeks to queue up to enter the port. Many routes to FBA warehouses in the West Coast of the United States have to be transferred from the Port of Los Angeles. In addition, the Port of Long Beach is also one of the top three ports in the West Coast of the United States . It can be said that half of the shipping in the West Coast of the United States has stopped now.

We just said yesterday that Germany and France have been on strike these past two days, so Maersk has stopped picking up goods at French ports. Now suddenly the same thing has happened in the United States, which has really caught the sellers off guard.

Port strikes usually last for one or two days, but the impact on delivery time is not as simple as one or two days. When many port machines and systems are put back into operation, they cannot directly reach the highest efficiency, which will inevitably cause serious delays in delivery time. Including small packages and large cargo shipped by sea, all packages passing through the West Coast of the United States will have this problem in the future.

What is more serious is that unlike the strikes in Germany and France we talked about yesterday, where the date and time of the strikes were announced, the strike at the US ports was a temporary move and it is unknown when it will end . Therefore, the countermeasures of major shipping companies are divided into two parts. In addition to waiting for the port to resume some capacity, some other routes have begun to divert to Mexico and the eastern United States.

Although the efficiency after the rerouting is relatively certain, the delay caused by the rerouting itself can be longer. This requires sellers to communicate more with their freight forwarders and keep abreast of the processing status and progress of their shipments.

In order to prevent unexpected stock-outs, you can take some remedial measures for the replenishment link. First, you need to maintain the existing inventory, appropriately increase the price, lower the advertising bid, close some promotional activities, etc. In short, make the existing inventory sell more slowly. Another way is to sell the FBA link by yourself, so that even if the FBA inventory is out of stock, the front desk can still sell it normally, reducing order losses.

In addition, you can develop a function called "start first when there is inventory", which allows the products to be sold normally at the front desk while they are in transit. This is a great advantage when encountering emergencies like the current ones.