The continuous rise of sea freight has greatly increased the pressure on many downstream enterprises. Due to the fear that the price will rise even higher, many shippers want to ship as soon as possible, resulting in a surge in shipments in recent days, and the demand for containers is also increasing rapidly.

At a container manufacturer in Jiangsu's Lianyungang Economic and Technological Development Zone, trucks line up to deliver newly made containers. As soon as these containers are produced, they are transported to the port for loading and going out to sea. The relevant person in charge of the company said that in the recent period of time, their factory has to transport nearly 500 containers a day.

Deputy manager of the production equipment department of a container enterprise in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province: Since the first quarter, the company's output has doubled compared with the same period last year. At the same time, the current order scheduling has reached the third quarter of this year.

At the yard of another container manufacturer in Beilun, Ningbo, Zhejiang province, customs officers are inspecting a batch of newly made containers for export, and the company's production line is also busy. After cold processing, electric welding, painting and other steps, a new container is shipped out. Business officials say they have seen a surge in orders since March. Now their monthly production capacity is 33,000 units, basically reaching full production.

Assistant general manager of a shipping equipment Co., LTD., Ningbo, Zhejiang: The overall speed is about 90 seconds to produce a box. We did not expect that the follow-up orders would be so hot, and now they are basically full until the end of October.

She said that the reason why the demand for new container orders is so strong, on the one hand, the number of new ships launched this year is large, on the other hand, the international situation and other reasons have also caused the shortage of containers.

Assistant general manager of a shipping equipment Co., LTD., Ningbo, Zhejiang: The new water volume this year is 2 million TEU (TEU), so it will lead to the simultaneous increase of new boxes. Container ships are going around Africa, causing the routes to be stretched.

Reporters from a number of port customs statistics show that the export volume of new containers have doubled in the first quarter.

Deputy Chief of the Comprehensive Business Section of Ningbo Customs' Beilun Customs Yongcheng Office: From January to April this year, the total import and export value of Ningbo port reached 782.78 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6%. Among them, the growth of container exports is particularly obvious, from January to April, Ningbo port container exports of 115,000, an increase of 9.5 times.