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News / Felixstowe box congestion spreads to Southampton, just in time for Xmas rush

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The UK’s two biggest container ports appear to have hit crisis level.

UK retailers potentially face weeks of delays in getting their Christmas stock onto the shelves in time for the peak consumer spending rush.

Moreover, UK exporters to Asia can virtually forget about getting containers shipped in ...

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  • Chris

    September 27, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    so its back to the good old days then? 🙂 I’ll bet the ports still offering much better than the 6+ hour turnaround times haulies often had to work with?

    • Mike Wackett

      September 28, 2018 at 2:34 pm

      At the port yes Chris, because of VBS, but can you get a VBS booking? Some guys are telling me that the wait time is 14 days – and then they are getting stung for quay rent!

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