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3 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The long warned of convergent world wide container shipping/ports crisis. Where UK Gov chose to add in its Brexit RoRo/LoLo shipping/ports trade with neighbours major constriction/rising costs/crisis. h/t @BrokenTwitty forbes.com/sites/forbesbu…
As above report states in container shipping/ports (rather similar parallel to self inflicted brexit RoRo/LoLo ports) "food is piling high in all the wrong places" "What’s more, high freight rates have caused retailers to either cancel contracts, bulk buy or delay purchases" 2/
"With the prospect of food shortages escalating prices, increased consumer pressure on the price of food as well as high shipping costs, many buyers are worried"
What Gov would *choose* to add Perfect Storm major trade barriers into this known unfolding world shipping crisis? 3/

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
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From a friend in GB: "Now is the time I am going to restock my tinned meat supply..I STILL think UK govt will not do anything about border controls for at least another year. They're v. quiet about developments like BIPs, LMS, Customs Officers. I don't think they are even trying"
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23 Jul
Liz Webster, a Wiltshire farmer who sells meat to Marks & Spencer, has said that while the pandemic has undoubtedly been a contributing factor, these issues began with Brexit – not the ‘pingdemic’.
“[The right-wing media] are trying to scapegoat the blame onto the Test and Trace
because they want to deflect the blame from Brexit,” she said today. “It’s a convenient scapegoat. The real problem at the heart of food shortages is Brexit. That’s it. No other country is having these issues. Supermarkets in France (anywhere in EU) are having no food shortages.”
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
20 Jul
@TOrynski sent me a blog which I have transposed into a tweet thread as follows:
Reasons for UK Driver Shortages
1. Brexit itself.
Let’s get that one out of the way straight away. British imports and exports plunged in the months after Brexit. We initially haven’t noticed it
thanks to the stockpiling, but Britain started to run out of its stock. And even if not, the stock still needs to be transported. The EU trucks were responsible for a lot of internal UK transport thanks to cabotage rules.
What does this mean?
Imagine you are arriving in your German trucks and unload your cargo in Coventry. Then you have to load the cargo back to Germany in Glasgow.
To avoid driving empty all the way from Midlands to Scotland you pick a load going that way,
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
15 Jul
I bet the "brexit' named issues in this report (some of us long predicted) do not make the UK headline news

edelivery.net/2021/07/half-u…
"More than half (56%) of UK hauliers are considering moving their operations to the EU"
Alleviating the shortage across EU even further; making the shortage in GB yet worse.
"Almost a third (31%) say they are avoiding working with the food & drinks industry, due to increased checks & admin on products. Other sectors impacted include livestock farming (25%), agricultural farming (25%), gardening supplies (19%) & retail (13%)."
This will get worse as..
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
14 Jul
He said: “Speaking to a local fish factory in my constituency, they tell me that were once a mere delivery note used to suffice they now need a catch certificate. “They also need packing lists, they need commodity codes, they need the scientific names on the consignments 1/
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My question *once again* is why is anybody having to speak to anybody about what was always coming for sales outside the SM&CU 2/
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14 Jul
Spot the differences then and now
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