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Container spot rates on the transpacific trades shot up this week, on the back of ...
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By Mike Wackett
Container shipments from Asia to the UK continue to be subject to “unprecedented” delays and significant additional costs.
“It’s as bad as you hear, possibly worse,” Ryan Clark director and co-owner of UK-based Westbound Logistics, told The Loadstar today.
“Space is still an issue, as are ever-increasing rates,” said Mr Clark,
“We are constantly finding ourselves apologising to customers. If it’s not rollings, space problems or rate increases, it’s a berthing delay or haulage issue,” he said.
As The Loadstar has previously reported, ocean ...
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Mr luigi pannozzo
November 11, 2020 at 4:36 pmperhaps the goverment should stop making furlough payments to the the felixstowe port company to encourage them to get there workers back to work
rather than running on less staff so that the felixstowe port can make more money out of the uk taxpayer
who ever is responsible for running the port needs to be sacked as they obviously are unable to do there job properly
and the port should suspend all demurrage charges for containers that await delivery due to there total incompitence in running the business