Will China-Europe trains stop because of European sanctions against Russia?
Zuo Qianhu: At present, the world's largest and second largest freight forwarding logistics companies DHL Global Freight and Dexun, as well as some freight companies ranked in more than a dozen, have stopped accepting China-Europe express train business themselves. These companies are european or American. There can be two reasons for this.
One is that Europe and the United States are already considering interrupting china-Europe trains to sanction Russia, and early warning of european and American freight logistics companies. Different from the general air transport of the day, the transport time of the China-Europe express train is as long as one month, if there is no prior warning of the sudden interruption, it will lead to a large number of goods being stuck on the railway line, storage and storage are very difficult, will cause a lot of disputes, the freight logistics enterprises are very harmful. Due to the high freight rate of The China-Europe express train relative to the sea, many large manufacturing and sales enterprises in Europe and the United States such as Volkswagen, Philips, Carrefour, Intel, Apple, Lenovo, etc. as cargo owners, are using the China-Europe express train, if the sudden interruption causes the goods of these enterprises to be stuck in the road Accident, it is not a good thing to provoke these capital groups in Europe and the United States. Therefore, european and American governments may warn relevant parties in advance to avoid losses.
Second, these European and American cargo logistics enterprises are forced by political correctness or anti-Russian ideology to take the initiative to stop self-censorship, just like what taekwondo federation canceled Putin's honorary chairman, preferring to damage their own business rather than give Russia the opportunity to earn freight, and sanction Russia alone. In this way, it is to kill 1 person and lose 1000, which is really taking yourself too seriously.
China-Europe express train line through Russia is an objective existence, the customer's transportation needs are also objective existence, you do not do other freight logistics companies to do, their own stop will only let customers hand over the transportation business to competitors, such as Japanese, French and other normal brain freight logistics companies. Before signing a long-term transportation agreement with European and American freight logistics companies, it was definitely a discounted price, and now it is temporarily transferred to other companies, which is sorry for the conscience of the capitalists not to be slaughtered.
Moreover, its own individual suspension of acceptance will disrupt and delay the transportation plan of the customer's cargo owner, resulting in the interruption of raw materials in the production line, the shortage of goods in the supermarket, etc. This is not the same as being directly affected by the uprisings in Kazakhstan and the war in Ukraine, and the direct effects of such a war are called unintentional force majeure. In the transport agreement, both parties have the responsibility to provide for this situation, and this kind of voluntary cessation is a unilateral breach of contract by the carrier freight logistics company. The world supply chain has become a pot of porridge, the shipping schedule is not allowed, when to arrive at the port to see the fate. Air transport can not enter the Russian airspace forced to change the route, the railway still comes to this? Are you a pastime? The consequence of delaying the capitalists in making money is to be shot eight times behind the scenes.
