Kommersant: beverage manufacturers have reported problems with the supply of citric acid cannot get the necessary ingredients from China, Kommersant warned.
According to the newspaper, producers of soft drinks in Russia also faced problems in the supply of citric acid. Problems with supplies threaten to cut production.
Maxim Novikov, president of Soyuznapitkov, said that a long break in the supply chain could negatively affect the entire cycle. At the same time, a reduction in the production of drinks can lead to a sharp increase in prices.
Executive Director of Rusprodsoyuz Dmitry Vostrikov added that suppliers are experiencing “critical logistics problems” with container shipping of packaging, equipment, food ingredients. According to him, now Russian ports are equipped with less than 50 berths, of which only 13 handle import containers. Thus, due to the large accumulation of goods, unloading today can be delayed up to 30 days.
The interlocutor of the publication in one of the forwarding companies also stressed that the reason for what is happening is a consequence of a global logistical disruption due to a pandemic, which has been going on for the second year. … Thus, new restrictions are constantly being introduced in the ports of China, in the South Korean port of Busan, which is 95 percent loaded, there is a huge traffic jam.
At the same time, the number of orders from Russian importers has greatly increased. When planning orders a year ago, they did not take into account that the markets would grow so rapidly.
2022 will be a double-digit year. According to him, this is due, among other things, to the global rise in prices, global inflation.