Felixstowe Port in chaos...

Not really, although I imagine there must be a way of blaming him. It was more the idea of him being naked by Easter would not be a good look.
 
Tomahawk said:
Chance to buy some cheap containers?
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Yep I understand that Containers can make good temporary Homes for those in need, so perhaps Felixstowe will become the New Crawley or Milton Keynes in the very near future;

Would be a better way for ant Imigration routes to just follow those container Ships into Felixstowe, disembark, be show dreckly to ones accomodation Container ?
 
Perhaps best if the accommodation containers are stacked on a barge at anchor in the middle of the Thames.. somewhere near the Black Deep perhaps?


BTW can we still call it the Black Deep. Shirley we should now say the Deep of Colour :cool:
 
There is a certain amount of “creative conspiracy theory” in this thread.

By way of background, UK / East Asia trade is unbalanced - for every ten loaded boxes that come in, nine go back empty.

1. The relationship between Cosco (mainland Chinese SOE) and Evergreen (Taiwanese private, but publicly quoted, company, associated with the Democratic People’s Party (native Taiwanese, broadly pro independence, party) in Taiwan) is actually rather good, at all levels. The two companies have operated in partnership on some routes for more than twenty years. Evergreen’s first ever route sharing agreement was with Cosco on the Latin America east coast trade. In the UK our relationship is particularly good, as we both operate UK flag ships.

2. Felixstowe Port is owned by CK Hutchison, which is a Hong Kong private, but publicly quoted, company, founded by Li KaShing. Hutchison Ports UK also own Thamesport, which they built for Evergreen, but Evergreen moved to bigger ships, which can’t fit into Thamesport, so Evergreen moved to Felixstowe.

London Gateway is on the site of the Shell Haven refinery and is owned and operated by Dubai Ports World which is a Dubai State Owned Enterprise. It is also at full capacity.

3. In the first half of this year, UK import demand was running at an abnormally low level, as indeed was demand everywhere in the world. Lots of sailings were “blanked” and lots of ships were laid up.

4. There is always a Christmas rush, which for us in Western Europe means September / November.

5. This year we have restocking on top of the Christmas rush.

6. It is standard practice when ports are busy to “cut and run” - to discharge loaded containers but not to back load the empties. The empties are stored ashore and retrieved when the rush slackens off. In our case, after Christmas.

7. One Evergreen ship cut Felixstowe and discharged her Felixstowe boxes in Rotterdam to be brought forward by feeder ships. Sensible move.

I don’t want to comment on Hutchison UK employing Chris Grayling or on Felixstowe’s IT issues.

I presume Carter’s are storing boxes at Melton.

Containership charter rates are ... pretty good ... at the moment. Which certainly suits me, given that my day job is commercial director for our UK flag fleet.
 
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At the risk of me 'drifting' - but I am good at that at the moment, you have revoked memories of going onto Tin Can Island (Lagos Container Port). I loved the name. Traffic wasn't great (nor organisation in the port). Trying to get onto the Island, huge traffic jam because an illicit power line over the road had fallen down. That was solved with some illicit scaffolding. Having finished there we got held up trying to leave the Island. The traffic was stationary for 3/4 hour. Not the best in a non AC'ed van. My bodyguards were told to find out why we were grid locked but they argued they couldn't protect me if they left me. Truth to tell they didn't fancy walking down the road in uniform even with guns! But they did in the end and it turned out the driver and mate in an artic had stopped, blocking the road, having an argument about an orange. I would like to say I bought each an orange to solve the problem but the bodyguards waved their guns and traffic was restored. The general reaction from my host was 'it was a good day'. My only justification for making a comment on this thread is 'Felixstowe Port isn't in chaos'.
 
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