Felixstowe Port in chaos...

wingdiver said:
A large number of shipping containers (getting on gor 300) have recently appeared, stacked four high, next to Orwell Yacht Club in the West Bank Terminal at Ipswich Docks. I assumed that they were empty but maybe not.....
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My other half works down the docks, though she's in transport rather than offering acts of comfort to visiting seamen. She tells me the Chinese have squeezed Evergreen out of the port and their ships are only allowed to dock to collect their empty containers. They understandably haven't, so the port has hundreds of empties littered about the place.

What a conundrum Felixstowe has become; a port owned by the Chinese, receiving ships from, mostly, far eastern lines, carrying Chinese goods with tug services provided by the Danish. The only British part is the actual ground which, I think, is still owned by Cambridge University. And yet is proclaims itself to be 'Britain's port'.
 
Major_Clanger said:
My other half works down the docks, though she's in transport rather than offering acts of comfort to visiting seamen. She tells me the Chinese have squeezed Evergreen out of the port and their ships are only allowed to dock to collect their empty containers. They understandably haven't, so the port has hundreds of empties littered about the place.

What a conundrum Felixstowe has become; a port owned by the Chinese, receiving ships from, mostly, far eastern lines, carrying Chinese goods with tug services provided by the Danish. The only British part is the actual ground which, I think, is still owned by Cambridge University. And yet is proclaims itself to be 'Britain's port'.
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Year Holly Shit what a conundrum, suppose its Govt Officials again taking their eyes off the Main Game and taking 'short cut' decisions all along the way, urg {:-(#

So when any Chinese Company running the British Electrical Generation systems decided to play their own game are we gona be in difficulties ?

Might ask, is thee not a Main BIG Port in the Thames (River not Coastal) that can take the biggest Ships, if so why is it not in real use ?
 
Major_Clanger said:
My other half works down the docks, though she's in transport rather than offering acts of comfort to visiting seamen. She tells me the Chinese have squeezed Evergreen out of the port and their ships are only allowed to dock to collect their empty containers. They understandably haven't, so the port has hundreds of empties littered about the place.

What a conundrum Felixstowe has become; a port owned by the Chinese, receiving ships from, mostly, far eastern lines, carrying Chinese goods with tug services provided by the Danish. The only British part is the actual ground which, I think, is still owned by Cambridge University. And yet is proclaims itself to be 'Britain's port'.
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That makes sense, Evergreen is Taiwanese owned.
 
Capt Popeye said:
Year Holly Shit what a conundrum, suppose its Govt Officials again taking their eyes off the Main Game and taking 'short cut' decisions all along the way, urg {:-(#

So when any Chinese Company running the British Electrical Generation systems decided to play their own game are we gona be in difficulties ?

Might ask, is thee not a Main BIG Port in the Thames (River not Coastal) that can take the biggest Ships, if so why is it not in real use ?
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Well London Gateway is expanding rapidly (at the same rate that Tilbury declines) but the main factor is that the Chinese own Felixstowe. That means they have a vested interest in patronising the port.
 
Major_Clanger said:
My other half works down the docks, though she's in transport rather than offering acts of comfort to visiting seamen. She tells me the Chinese have squeezed Evergreen out of the port and their ships are only allowed to dock to collect their empty containers. They understandably haven't, so the port has hundreds of empties littered about the place.

What a conundrum Felixstowe has become; a port owned by the Chinese, receiving ships from, mostly, far eastern lines, carrying Chinese goods with tug services provided by the Danish. The only British part is the actual ground which, I think, is still owned by Cambridge University. And yet is proclaims itself to be 'Britain's port'.
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You keep saying "The Chinese". Is this the Chinese government or private Chinese companies, if there are such things. If it is Chinese companies, would they not go to the "most suitable" port? If Felixstowe Docks are in chaos, why should we worry, it is not out our port
 
DavidofMersea said:
You keep saying "The Chinese". Is this the Chinese government or private Chinese companies, if there are such things. If it is Chinese companies, would they not go to the "most suitable" port? If Felixstowe Docks are in chaos, why should we worry, it is not out our port
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The port was owned for years by a HK consortium but that is China, in real terms. I don't pretend to understand their situation but it strikes me that state and private ownership seem to have blurred edges.

I'd love to agree with your observation but for the fact that 'we' survive on Chinese goods nowadays. If Felixstowe sneezes then the UK buying public catch a cold.
 
From Wikipedia:

CK Hutchison Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong-based and Cayman Islands-registered multinational conglomerate. The company was formed in March 2015 through the merger of Cheung Kong Holdings and its main associate company Hutchison Whampoa.[2] It is renowned for its five core businesses ‐ ports and related services, retail, infrastructure, energy and telecommunications, which operates in over 50 countries.
 
August bank holiday up to Chinese New Year is always a busy time anyway but delays are mostly port related (poor systems, lack of trained staff, etc) and this is having a knock on effect with vessels being unloaded and changes in sailing schedules, resulting in too many empty containers in the port – probably wont improve in the foreseeable with high winds forecast, potential dock closures and increased volumes due to Brexit!
 
Reading to the end of the BBC report, the final paragraph explains all!

"Two months ago, the former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling was hired to advise the port's parent company Hutchison Ports Europe, which is based in London. The register of MPs' financial interests shows he's being paid £100,000 for "around seven hours" of work per week."

Failing Grayling strikes again and Hutchison Europe are daft enough to pay him! Mind you...it is quite an impressive turn around on his usual performance...taking him 7 hours a week to bring things to a halt. Normally just appointing him to a position will cause absolute chaos and pandemonium!
 
The register of MPs' financial interests shows he's being paid £100,000 for "around seven hours" of work per week."

That's the sort of job I am after.....rest of the week could be spent sailing!!
 
DavidofMersea said:
Presumably the port charges storage for empty containers
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They charge it back to the shipping lines, problem was they have space for 55,000 empties...when this was exceeded they started turning boxes away....so costs to take them elsewhere ie Tilbury and then Tilbury started to charging to receive them!!
Been a funny few weeks :ROFLMAO:
 
Actually it's all part of Boris's wonderful master plan. He's stocking up on containers so that from January when all the new trade deals kick in and he is finally free of the sausage and baguette yolk of the EU then the wonderful British manufacturing machine that he has built up in the last year will have something to put their goods in to send to the land of hope and glory commonwealth. I tell you, he will soon have the empire back.
 
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