Data show that the inflation rate in the United States in May has reached 8.6%of the 40 years. Subsequently, the Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate of 75 basis points this week, setting the largest interest rate hike since 1994.
"Coping inflation is my primary task." Relevant personnel said at a press conference. "This bill will help reduce inflation, at least it will help farmers and enterprises across the United States."
In March of this year, after winning the support of the House of Representatives, the Ocean Cargopping Reform Act was adopted in an oral voting in the Senate. The bill authorized the relevant departments (Federal Maritime Commission) to investigate the relevant fines received by ocean carrier, and at the same time, the carrier and the shipping terminal were prohibited from refusing to fill the full -time space available space.
"In short, this will help reduce transportation costs and reduce all prices from goods to services," the relevant personnel explained.
At the press conference, the relevant personnel also emphasized that at present, the ocean shipping business is concentrated in the hands of a few large companies, leading to a surge in logistics costs, harming the interests of American companies, and exacerbating inflation.
"These shipping companies achieved a profit of 190 billion US dollars in 2021, 7 times the previous year," he introduced. "As you think, the cost was directly passed on to consumers, and it was passed on to American families and family and American families and family and American families and families Enterprise, because they have this ability. "
When the bill was introduced, the container turnover between China and the United States was still a problem. As early as in the early days of the supply chain crisis, due to the long line of ships outside the United States and European ports, there was a shortage of container in China.
At present, the backlog of the US port container is still continuing, and the delay time of the pick -up is getting longer and longer. According to the relevant article, although the port is now running nearly 24 hours, the average waiting time for the container on the West Coast is up to 9 days -in general, it only takes 3.5 days.
