By Mike Wackett
The return of guardian angel industry veteran Chris Lewis to the port of Felixstowe next week cannot come soon enough for the beleaguered UK container hub port.
Not only are carriers levying congestion surcharges on embattled shippers using the port, which was described on LinkedIn yesterday as “not fit for purpose”, but The Loadstar now understands lines are quoting sky-high rates from Asia for shipments to Felixstowe in order to discourage bookings.
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Chris Gosling
November 01, 2020 at 11:44 amAs the old local journo who made the video report, I think it’s pretty damn straight.
Adan Searle has had a huge amount of feedback and support from the local haulage and freight forwarding industry, and we have had a similar amount of very supportive feedback locally.
I’ve been reporting on the Port for many years, on and off, and most likely last fell out of favour when reporting on their nGen system install, back in 2018 . . .