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Recently, the U.S. - Iraq military conflict continues to escalate, the global crude oil market supply concerns rise rapidly, and the international crude oil futures price rises by more than 3% per day, opening a new round of rising market. The Middle East is the core crude oil production area in the world, and the regional geographic conflict directly disturbs the crude oil supply expectation and drives the price of marine fuel oil to rise synchronously. The rise of oil price is not a short-term market fluctuation, but a structural market driven by geological risks. The market continues to have doubts about the stability of the crude oil supply chain, bringing continuous cost pressure to the global shipping industry, especially for the shipping track of large equipment with high energy consumption.
The cross-border transportation of large pile foundation engineering equipment such as rotary drilling rig and pile driver completely relies on special shipping vessels such as heavy lift vessel and semi-submersible vessel. Such vessels have large tonnage, high power consumption, fuel consumption far higher than that of common container cargo ship, and fuel cost accounts for the core proportion of the overall shipping cost. Different from general bulk cargo transportation, large engineering equipment belongs to oversized large cargo, with fixed transportation route, long navigation period, and high energy consumption in the whole process of ocean trans-regional transportation. It is almost impossible to reduce energy consumption by shortening the voyage and reducing transportation capacity. Therefore, each round of rise in international oil price will be directly and accurately transmitted to the large equipment logistics link, becoming the core inducement of industry cost fluctuation.
The rising price of marine fuel oil directly compresses the profit space of large shipping enterprises. The industry generally starts the price adjustment mechanism of fuel surcharges to transfer the cost pressure downward. For equipment export enterprises such as rotary drilling rigs and piling machines, the cross-border ocean freight costs have been increased significantly. Combined with the increase of fuel and energy consumption costs in supporting links such as cross-border land transportation, port hoisting and equipment fixation and reinforcement, the quotation of the whole set of cross-border logistics solutions continues to rise. At the same time, the rising oil price drives the rising price of oil and gas derivatives such as ship lubricants and shipping maintenance consumables, further adding the comprehensive operating costs of large equipment transportation, so that the cost advantage of foreign trade export of heavy equipment is continuously weakened.
The conflict between the United States and Iraq disturbs the core shipping channels in the Middle East, and part of the ocean routes are bypassed to avoid risks, directly lengthening the transportation voyage and increasing the sailing time. Large equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and piling rigs have a long transportation period, and routing will further delay the delivery period and affect the construction progress of overseas infrastructure projects. At the same time, the market risk aversion caused by the geographic conflict caused some shipping enterprises to adjust the capacity layout, and the market supply of large special ships was tightened in a phased manner. Combined with the operating pressure caused by the rise of oil price, the supply of high-quality transportation capacity failed to meet the demand. Not only the freight rate continued to rise, but also the booking difficulty was significantly increased, disrupting the normalized pace of equipment foreign trade transportation.
Large engineering equipment belongs to capital-intensive products. The quotation period of foreign trade orders is long, the profit margin is relatively fixed, and the sudden rise of oil price and freight is very easy to cause the profit of signed orders to shrink, and the quotation of new orders to be passively increased. Price fluctuation will weaken the price competitiveness of domestic rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers in overseas markets, and delay the landing of some intention orders. At the same time, the uncertainty of logistics cost increases the wait-and-see mood of foreign trade enterprises, the short-term market circulation slows down, and the trading activity of cross-border large equipment falls back in stages, forming an indirect impact on the export industry chain of heavy equipment.
In the face of oil price fluctuation and logistics changes caused by geographic conflicts, large equipment shipping and foreign trade industry need to establish a normalized risk response mechanism. Logistics enterprises can hedge oil price fluctuation risks and stabilize transportation costs by optimizing route planning, integrating large cargo transportation resources, locking fuel purchase prices in batches, etc. Foreign trade enterprises of engineering equipment can reserve the floating space of logistics cost in advance, optimize the order quotation system, and disperse the geographical risks of single region based on diversified overseas market layout. At the same time, the industry can promote the standardized and refined operation of large logistics, improve the transportation efficiency, reduce the operation and maintenance loss, offset the cost pressure caused by the rise of oil price, and guarantee the stable operation of cross-border trade and logistics link of large engineering equipment.
