At 17:00 pm on April 6th local time in the United States, and at 9:00 am Beijing time this morning (April 7th), the largest container ports in the United States, Los Angeles and Long Beach, suddenly shut down. Los Angeles and Long Beach issued notices to the transportation industry. Due to Due to unforeseen circumstances, the terminal has been temporarily closed. At the same time, many freight forwarders sent urgent notices to the sellers about this incident: due to the temporary closure of the two major ports in the United States, involving 12 terminal areas, it is known that only the Matson terminal can pick up containers normally, and other terminals are no longer able to pick up containers. cabinet operation. There is also a freight forwarder reminding the seller: the general ship cargo that has not yet been picked up at the port this week may result in cancellation of the contract and change of contract. It is expected that the unloading of the ship and the pick-up of the container will cause congestion and may affect the operation of the container arriving at the port in the next week.Resulting in delays ranging from 3-7 days.
Ozon Announces 2022 Q4 and Full-Year Financial Report, Revenue Increased by 55%
Russian e-commerce platform Ozon announced its Q4 and full-year performance data for 2022. Due to the substantial increase in the number of third-party sellers and sales, Ozon has achieved year-on-year growth in revenue, profit,and sales GMV quarterly and annual performance. Ozon’s GMV rose 67% year-on-year to 296 billion rubles in the fourth quarter and 86% year-on-year to 832.2 billion rubles, as third-party seller sales nearly doubled, according to the report. In 2022, the number of active buyers on Ozon will increase by 9.6 million to 35.2 million, while the number of active sellers will increase by more than 2.5 times year-on-year to more than 230,000. At the same time, Ozon continues to expand its logistics network. As of December 31, 2022, Ozon’s total warehouse area increased by 36% year-on-year to 1.4 million square meters.
SHEIN is advancing the third-party platform business
It is reported that SHEIN may officially open the platform business in April. ”At the same time, SHEIN is urgently recruiting technical employees related to the third-party platform. This shows that SHEIN is stepping up the promotion of third-party platform business. An Amazon seller said that he has received an invitation from the official investment manager of SHEIN to join his first The business attempt of the three-party platform. A cross-border clothing seller said that the sellers who try the SHEIN third-party platform business can enjoy the following preferential policies: no commission for the first 3 months, and 10% of the sales of all subsequent categories; the first 3 months SHEIN bears the return shipping fee, and the subsequent seller shall bear the return shipping fee; the seller has the right to set prices, and there is no traffic fee.
The Italian cosmetics market is recovering, with sales exceeding pre-pandemic levels
Driven by the recovery of exports and national consumption,the Italian cosmetics market has ushered in strong growth, with sales far exceeding pre-pandemic levels. According to data released by Cosmetica Italia (Italian Cosmetics Association), the turnover of the Italian cosmetics industry will reach 13.3 billion euros in 2022, an increase of 12.1% over the previous year and an increase of 10.5% over 2019. Looking forward to 2023, Cosmetica Italia predicts that the Italian cosmetics market will grow by 7.7%, with a total turnover of 14.4 billion euros.
Maersk suspends import and export operations in France
On April 3, Maersk announced that in view of the current strike situation in France, in order to ensure the normal operation of the customer’s supply chain, Maersk provides customers with business emergency plans to minimize the impact on the supply chain. Except for the port of Le Havre, the comprehensive demurrage, demurrage and storage fees at all terminals will be directly invoiced to customers for storage fees, and import and export will be suspended from April 6th to April 7th.
Post time: Apr-11-2023
