Honda pauses production after UK port woes

[AtW]

“ Tim Stacey, chief executive of DFS, the sofa retailer which has used Felixstowe for three decades, said there was a “genuine problem” at the port which was getting worse. “As a result, our Chinese suppliers aren’t even going to Felixstowe anymore,” he said. “They are dropping deliveries at Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Dunkirk and we are then having to use hauliers and extra lorries to get across. So there’s extra cost and it’s bad for consumers because there’s delays in deliveries.”

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[Mordac]

Again, naive or stupid?

The congestion at UK ports is causing congestion of freight vessels all over the globe. For e.g. freight co's are not planning any further ships to leave China to the UK for some weeks as they are running out of empty containers as they are building up at UK ports. It is very much caused by Brexit ... the world just loves us and the 52% that voted out

I don't think you're stupid. The empty containers are building up at ports all over the world. The UK congestion is a tiny fraction of the global situation.

[WTFH]

The UK congestion is a tiny fraction of the global situation.

But we're the UK, we rule the waves, we are not a tiny fraction, we are the most important, the rest of the world crumbles because we are the global key!