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Conflicting UK and European port performance reports this week
While many ports are currently experiencing no issue, or are even quiet, the fallout of the week-long Suez Canal closure in March is likely to impact supply chains through to June and possibly...
View from the coast – I see no ships!
Last weekend may be the first one our Transport Manager, Simon Balfe, hasn’t seen a Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV) on a berth at Felixstowe, but that hasn’t deterred the port from...
India and Bangladesh enter new lockdowns, impacting supply chains
Having just come through a full weekend lockdown, Maharashtra state (location of the major port of Nava Sheva) government imposed lockdown-like curbs, including curfews, in the state from 8pm on...
Many UK exporters continuing to struggle with European trade post Brexit
Despite the UK economy edging 0.4% higher in February, helped by a partial rebound in trade with the EU as exporters learnt to deal with new Brexit border restrictions, many more are having to...
Global ports likely to face weeks of ‘critical’ delays
Terminal operations and supporting infrastructure at the most important mainland European and UK ports will be put under immense pressure over the next four weeks, as they try to work through the...
Air freight demand returns but space remains an issue
The latest air cargo figures from the International Air Transport Association, the trade association of the world's airlines, shows that while demand is growing ahead of pre-Covid levels, capacity...
Ever Given, General Average declared, and vessel arrested by the Suez Canal Authority to recover $1 billion compensation
The 400m long vessel blocked the canal for six days and more than a dozen tug boats, multiple dredgers and 800 personnel were used in the recovery operation, with Egyptian authorities...
Carriers tackle post-Suez scheduling and equipment issues
As global shipping struggles to adjust from the Ever Given grounding and the six day Suez Canal closure, container carriers have the challenge of recovering schedules and...
Lloyds List: Sometimes, no publicity really is bad publicity
Shipping executives had an opportunity to be front and centre in the international news cycle and deliver an important message about how trade works. Instead, they chose to hide in the shadows....
Security surcharge on air cargo trucked from UK to EU gateway airports
Airlines are imposing security charges for cargo arriving from the UK on road feeder services for flights out of European hub airports. Following the end of the post-Brexit transition period in...
EU reduce ‘red-tape’ but food exporters face new barriers
The EU is to drop ‘Meursing codes’ from import declarations for manufactured food products coming from the UK in a major reduction of post-Brexit red tape, but new EU legislation covering...












