Gemini drops Felixstowe for London Gateway on Asia-Europe strings
With just 10 weeks until the Gemini Cooperation formally begins sailings – and two weeks ...
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By Mike Wackett
It was a still and sunny day at Felixstowe last Friday, providing some respite from the storms that battered the UK over Christmas and the first days of 2014. The good weather allowed the country’s biggest container port to attack the backlog of ships laden with imports, which had put the supply chain under severe stress.
Faced with the prospect of joining long queues for berths as Felixstowe suffered significant downtime in gale force winds, several ships were diverted to the ...
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Martin Rayner
January 13, 2014 at 9:54 pmSorry to nit pick, but I don’t think “administrational” is actually a word. Perhaps “administrative” would be better…
Gavin van Marle
January 14, 2014 at 10:42 amWe welcome nit-picking readers, and every correction they bring to our attention, but this one is a conundrum: The behemoth New Oxford English Dictionary that sits by the foot of my desk has no record of administrational. But some online dictionaries do. I suspect it might be accepted in American English. Wiktionary lists it as a synonym of administrative here. Hmm, one to ponder on…