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The Felixstowe strike is still currently set to start from this Sunday, 21st August, and run until Monday 29th August.

Dockworkers at the Port of Liverpool have voted in favour of strike action over pay and working conditions.

The Felixstowe strike has now been set as eight days running from Sunday 21st August until Monday 29th.

The incident involving the APL Vanda has been exasperated further, and it will NOT be calling at Southampton.

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Port workers at Felixstowe have now voted to strike in August, which will bring the port to a standstill.

With no breakthrough in talks expected, rail workers are set to strike again this Wednesday 27th July.

The incident surrounding the mystery ship – APL Vanda – has been uncovered, but lengthy UK delays still expected.

A mystery incident has delayed the the vessel  “APL Vanda” en-route to the UK from Asia, delaying it over 2 weeks.

Covid cases are on the rise again and with mass testing underway concerns of more lockdown measures are rising.

It’s Independence Day in the US, and we felt we would embrace the day and share some fun facts.

There seems to be some real optimism that supply chains ion the United States are set for recovery.

Fears that the end of Shanghai’s lockdowns would result in chaos have not yet materialised.

It’s festival season again and many acts will be getting ready for the UK’s largest music festival at Glastonbury.

As we continue to focus on Customs CDS developments, we take a look at some of the key charges incoming.

The RMT Union are set to strike on three days this month, which will likely impact container transport.

A series of explosions near the port of Chittagong has led to over 40 deaths in Bangladesh since the weekend.

Effective from June, a US import ban will be in place for goods originating from the Xinjiang Uyghur region.

The UK offices of Atlantic Pacific will be closed for 2 days at the end of next week due to the Queen’s Jubilee.

As we continue to focus on Customs CDS developments, we take a look at some of the key charges incoming.

Shanghai Lockdown: Concerns are rising that a flood of exports are likely to squeeze capacity once more.

A recent industry report has concluded that the average vessel loop is arriving back in China 20 days late.

The UK government have been making changes to the customs process, with CDS due to replace CHIEF.

It’s another another bank holiday weekend, with the UK in the middle of a run of 5 public holidays in 7 weeks.

Carriers from the shipping line alliances are currently introducing further blanked sailings for next month.

Shanghai has entered its fourth week of lockdown, which is creating backlogs for many other Chinese airports.

The Port of Felixstowe has announced a new levy to recover recent rises in energy for import containers.

Devastating floods in Durban have put a halt to logistics in the region and led to the loss of over 300 lives.

Since the start of this week there has been a slight easing of the Covid restrictions in the city of Shanghai.

The city of Shanghai is going into a two stage lockdown, which will impact both air and ocean freight.

New Zealand is opening up its borders again soon and has recently signed a new UK trade deal.

P&O have suspended their ferry services, with a major company announcement coming later today.

Availability on vessels now the most prominent issue for North American ocean freight movements.

Truck drivers throughout Spain have been on strike since Monday, protesting against increasing fuel rates.

China is now fighting its biggest Covid crisis since the initial outbreak with over 3,000 cases reported Sunday.

Fuel prices are soaring since the Ukraine conflict started, which is affecting costs on all transport modes.

Atlantic Pacific attended an event last night, which was effectively the final hoorah for Hares About Town.

Today is International Women’s Day – a global day celebrating the social and political achievements of women.

It is St Patrick’s day next week and the annual break has been extended to two holiday days this year.

The London Freight Club have today launched an initiative to support the British Red Cross DEC Ukraine Appeal.

Atlantic Pacific have suspended offering services or accepting bookings to or from Russia.

This morning’s news of conflict in Ukraine has had an immediate impact on logistics, with more to come.

The USA could be next in line for the trucker anti vaccination protests that have hindered Canada recently.

Storm Franklin has caused further disruption with many port operations now suspended.

To some extent the CNY has been a successful circuit breaker, as we highlight in the port update below.

Atlantic Pacific’s Chrissy Nichols has been appointed as Vice-Chairman of The London Freight Club.

Storm Dudley has already started to impact logistics in Ireland, with Dublin and Belfast affected.

Australian borders to reopen for passengers – should bring a boost for air freight capacity in the coming weeks.

A container mega-ship was refloated in the early hours of this morning after being grounded near a German port.

Atlantic Pacific Group have welcomed a new member, following the acquisition of Freedom Logistics UK Ltd.

Yantian is the latest port to suffer with congestion, which is currently leading to difficulties getting on quay.

Ocean freight throughout China is being impacted regionally, below is a summary position for the major ports.

Atlantic Pacific Cork are this month celebrating serving customers in Ireland for a fantastic 10 years.

Another very challenging year in logistics, but we are trying to look ahead optimistically for 2022 as a business.

Covid outbreaks in China have led to regional lockdowns, which include factory closures, in the Yangtze Delta area.

The event raised over £100,000 for NHS Charities Together and enabled a direct reinvestment of over £100,000.

Felixstowe port are once again insisting on empty containers being returned to other ports, incurring extra costs.