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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

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16 Jun

Liverpool’s container port is “imploding”, with hauliers growing increasingly concerned over the gateway’s viability as they struggle for booking slots.
Forwarders are also beginning to feel the pinch as increasing numbers of hauliers, refuse to service Liverpool.
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“Lots of hauliers from outside the Liverpool region are simply refusing to go there, because of the poor productivity and increased costs, which leads to us incurring quay rent and detention charges,” one forwarder told The Loadstar.

Maritime Transport, told customers new charges for delays at Liverpool would be incurred from close of business today.“
One of the smaller hauliers said: “It is at crisis point now, and I am really not sure why the port has not ground to a halt

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

15 Jun

While some managed to stave off the (brexit) impact, thanks in large part to pre-Brexit stockpiling, others are now struggling to replenish shelves and are seeing orders refused by suppliers scrambling to clear backlogs that have built up. And its big ones too.....

Nestlé is having problems galore because it can’t even get its goods into the GB from Rotterdam, let alone get its deliveries on the road here.”Surging container rates are not helping the situation either, with wholesalers noting that prices are climbing across the supply chain.

Mr Lunt said: “Ultimately, we’re all paying for this now, ...., because if you have a supplier that has gone from 100 to now 3 picks a day, the supply chain is not built for that; it won’t hold. you’ll soon end up with no stock on the shelves.”
Full Report theloadstar.com/uk-sme-wholesa…

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@vivamjm

14 Jun

Shippers are facing that
*(self inflicted brexit exacerbated)*
"perfect storm" as the logistics industry has entered an “an era of unprecedented disruption”, with ports crippled by acute congestion as the malaise faced by China’s Yantian spreads to others.

According to Alex Hersham, CEO and co-founder of supply chain technology company Zencargo, the knock-on effect from Yantian, which has been operating at just 20% of normal productivity due to an outbreak of positive Covid-19 cases,

will be acutely felt in the coming weeks by retailers and consumers (perhaps cushioned further by extended lockdown restrictions) And he warned that industries “will face shortages of materials, and countries will struggle to stock up on PPE”, and also...

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

14 Jun

Chief executive of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD) James Bielby said the situation had become so extreme, with the shortage hitting 70,000, he recommended the government having army trucks on standby “to ensure… enough vehicles and drivers to distribute food”.

“The shortage of drivers is now critical, food wholesalers are experiencing severe difficulties delivering to stores, pubs, restaurants and care homes,” the spokesperson said. “We are meeting with ministers this week to discuss options, which we believe .....

should include having army drivers on standby to ensure food distribution.”
Among the proposals it intends to put forward is a temp extension of drivers’ hours, perhaps limited to multi-drops in remote areas & regions with a food supply threat.
ah that "bonfire of regulations"

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

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11 Jun

& again...self imposing trade constriction/damage at best of times not good...but at a time of converging covid container shipping crisis ...& now this (Belarus sanctions) !!!
Today, the International Federation of Freight Forwarding Associations (FIATA) warned its members ..

...have significant implications for Asia-Europe supply chains.
“Belarus is a major artery for east-west transport, and freight forwarders should be aware of the adverse impacts such sanctions and related restrictions could have on the movement of goods,” it said.

“A high number of flights to China, Japan and South Korea regularly fly over Belarusian airspace, and re-routing those flights will increase flight times and will result in the reduction of cargo capacity.”
And the impact on China-Europe rail services could be far more severe,

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@vivamjm

11 Jun

Again as long warned last year ...
UK was going to self inflict major trade constriction/damage with converging covid effects trade restrictions/damage
Ocean carriers are rolling out more rate increases next week:
FAK rates from Asia to N.Europe edging towards $20,000 per 40ft

This represents an incredible *1,000%* increase on the spot rate for the trade a year ago.
Straightforward Consultancy, warned that some importers, caught in a trap between fixed prices agreed with major retailers and highly elevated freight rates, could be in trouble.

“Many UK importers will find themselves trapped, paying eight times more for freight than last year; so expect insolvencies in 2022,” he warned.
Another UK forwarder told The Loadstar that the market was “bedlam”. He added: “Our import customers are coming to a standstill..

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