Price extension deepens contraction of truck freight

The 4-fold extension of freight tariffs that started after the pandemic did not affect the decline in trade volume, on high levels that are affecting price expensive.

Goods transport operators claim that after August the volume of transportation of food products and not food continues to last.

Since April last year, truck transport of goods and ships is in a new reality for high prices of transportation fees. Before the crisis period, the fee for importing a container of goods from China was between 2,000 and 3,000 dollars. The transport fee at 2021 totaled $12,000-17,000. While trucking fees for neighbouring countries like Italy range from 900 to 1,000 euros, up to 2,000.

But costing transportation fees did not affect the contraction of demand for goods. In this period, transport operators underlined that the demand for transport of goods is too high and unaffordable with the fleet of vehicles and truck drivers available.

While in this period, operators raise concerns that transportation requirements are very low, even though we are on alert to the holiday season, which has always coincided with the high flow of demand and reservations that began since November.

Andy Shijak director for transport of goods to company “Shega Trans” states that the reason for the decline in the volume of truck freight has been influenced by price price expensive.

“After the month of August, the decline in trade volume in the transportation of food goods has begun, but other industrial products on the road by truck. The decline in demand for transport of goods has continued for the months of October and November compared to the same period of 2021.

The month of December also turns out to be a running period, in proportion to years and years. The decline in volume is the high prices of goods influenced by the global crisis. Price hikes have affected lower consumption. Therefore, companies have reduced supplies, as they risk creating stock in warehouses”.

As for transport tariffs Shijak says the tariffs continue to be stabilised to transport goods in the truck, to post-ndem levels, while for transporting container goods from China, the tariffs have been lowered.

At that, according to INSTAT data, cargo transport in the month of October 2022 marked a decline in ports, while growing on railway and air.

The volume of air - transported goods was 204.2 tonnes, increasing by 14.4 %, compared to October 2021. The volume of stock loaded/loaded in ports is 284.5 thousand tonnes, dropping by 31,2 %, compared to October 2021. The volume of goods transported by railway is 1,778 thousand tonnes-kilometers, increasing by 0.3 %, compared to October 2021.