{"id":3206,"date":"2021-10-06T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/container-crisis-forcing-shippers-to-bulk-shipments\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:43:57","slug":"container-crisis-forcing-shippers-to-bulk-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/container-crisis-forcing-shippers-to-bulk-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"Container Crisis Forcing Shippers to Bulk Shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of shipping stuff in containers has gotten so out of hand that major worldwide shippers like Coca-Cola Co. are switching its cargoes to vessels that are normally only used by industrial commodity traders to help keep its business running, reports Transport Topics.<\/p>\n<p>In normal times, the company transports materials around the world in the same 20-foot steel boxes that haul everything from toys to bicycles. With those markets booming and capacity constrained, it has instead chosen to use three so-called bulk carriers \u2014 normally used by commodity traders to haul products like coal and iron ore \u2014 to transport 60,000 tons of cargo, Alan Smith.<\/p>\n<section class=\"block block-block block-block-8\"><\/section>\n<p>\u201cWhen you can\u2019t get containers or space due to the current ocean freight crisis, then we had to think outside the box,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The big advantage of using containers is that they are part of a well-established logistics chain that gets goods efficiently from where they are made to where they are used. Bulkers may be cheaper, but they can be less convenient because the cargoes have to get moved to and from ports.<\/p>\n<p>So tight is the container freight market that there has even been demand for some bulkers \u2014 so-called because they move cargoes in bulk and not in individualized boxes \u2014 to move boxes on their decks.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the companies hiring vessels, even dry-bulk freight is now booming too.<\/p>\n<p>If that continues \u2014 and some say it may \u2014 one workaround for the container crisis may start to lose some of its allure.<\/p>\n<p>Full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/container-crisis-gets-so-bad-coca-cola-switches-bulk-freight\">story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of shipping stuff in containers has gotten so out of hand that major worldwide shippers like Coca-Cola Co. are switching its cargoes to vessels that are normally 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