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Unlike last year, when the international production chain was severely affected by the congestion of goods in China's ports, this time the Chinese new year promises not to cause problems at the supply of photovoltaic kits for the Brazilian market.
That why, Besides the Covid be more controlled now than at the beginning of 2022, the main distributors Brazilians too organized well in advance to keep your product stock and customer orders up to date for the beginning of January, as explained by Wladimir Janousek, executive director of JCS Consultoria e Serviços.
“Due to Law 14,300, many companies formed high product inventories at the end of last year, with China having managed to meet all these demands. In addition to this, we are realizing that it is not such a harsh winter in Europe and Asia The same is happening, for example, in the United States. This did not have any additional impacts on the supply of products from China”, he commented.
O Chinese new year – which takes place from January 22nd and lasts three days – is a holiday that every year obliges companies from everyone to plan in advance for avoid delays and lack of products final products or raw materials.
Last year, O accumulation of containers ended up getting worse after several Chinese ports were forced to suspend a series of services due to the widespread outbreak of Covid-19, close to the holiday season.
According to Bloomberg, last year volumes transported to the Shenzhen terminal, one of the largest in China, for example, were around 30% above December 2021 levels.
At the time, some Chinese equipment manufacturers even made a last-ditch effort to ship some goods before the start of the holiday, but even so, many products ended up not being delivered at their respective destinations.
“At the beginning of the year, the impacts of Covid contamination in China are still being largely filtered: in some regions the situation is a little more worrying, with the government of these locations holding back the news a little. However, the information we have is that factories are operating normally in China. Which is a positive point”, he assessed.
What do distributors say?
O Solar Channel heard, this Tuesday (17), five of the main distributors of photovoltaic equipment in the country to find out about the forecast for the delivery of equipment to their customers during the Chinese New Year period.
In a note, the Bluesun reported that always at the end of Q4 (fourth quarter) every year they prepare for the Chinese holiday. “We have a lot of material arriving and a lot of material is already available for immediate delivery”, highlighted the company.
A Genyx, in turn, highlighted that the schedule for this beginning of the year has already taken into account the recess in China and that stocks were sized taking this dynamic into account.
Already the Focus Energy, The For days and the Empalux informed that they will serve their customers calmly during the Chinese holiday, considering that they have organized themselves and brought forward the arrival of goods.
