Felixstowe Docks in trouble?

harryhound

"Casualisation" - just what just in time deliveries don't need as it breeds wild cat strikes in busy times.
Next step: flying squads of third world strike breakers?

(I've never quite understood how the Californian "Longshore men" cling onto their terms and conditions?)

pickles110564

mewbie wrote: »

It gets everyone in the end.

Now what could Pickles have meant a few pages back when he said volumes were increasing? Perhaps it was an honest mistake.

You see - if he had just said "things are a bit tough" back on page 3 none of the rest of this thread would have happened. But the combined might of MSE and it would seem finally the media are not enough to persuade him that volumes might be down rather than up.

Gotta hand it to him.

Last weeks volume up again, something is starting to heat up.

Willievergetone

Result from the staff ballot should be in tomorrow after the union pandered to the company and would not release the result until after the hourly paid had voted, I wonder why they requested this?

pickles110564

pickles110564 wrote: »

Idle boxship capacity at all-time high and rising
Nearly 400 ships at anchor or lay-up as trade volumes fall


By Janet Porter - Thursday 19 February 2009
By the beginning of this week, an estimated 392 ships with combined total capacity of 1.1m teu were idle, according to AXS-Alphaliner.

http://www.eyefortransport.com/content/104-global-fleet-idle

Until these start decreasing the global economy aint improving any time soon.

FungusFighter

Seen this one Pickles?

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/business/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=Business&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED08%20May%202009%2008%3A35%3A20%3A447

but you said:

pickles110564 wrote: »

I do not duck any questions that you ask but you just make up huge untrues that you can not back up.
The reason that less goes by road is because that is what the government wants. I thought you know all about the bigger picture?
The Port is moving more and more of the containers through Rail. Mr Bigger Picture surely you know why one of the recruitment company disappeared?
No you dont know so that shows how little you know or understand.

Why do you even bother logging on mate? Yr so full of it:rotfl:

Cannon_Fodder

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Traffic-falls-as-recession-pushes.5247828.jp

"There were one in nine – 11 per cent – fewer trucks on the roads between January and March compared with a year ago."

FungusFighter

fatpig wrote: »

This thread is dragging on way too long. Can we not just fast forward to the bit where pickles gets the sack and toddles off down to the nearest Jobcentre with his P45?

they can't fire him mate

The bogs would get in one hell of a mess:D

mewbie_2

pickles110564 wrote: »

Last weeks volume up again, something is starting to heat up.

Quote from local rag, Fungus link above, is this...
"Imports through Felixstowe, Britain's biggest container port, are down 16 to 20 per cent, and some haulage firms have gone bust."

There must be a reason for the discrepancy in the two opinions I guess but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe Pickles is a floater after all?

FungusFighter

mewbie wrote: »

Quote from local rag, Fungus link above, is this...
"Imports through Felixstowe, Britain's biggest container port, are down 16 to 20 per cent, and some haulage firms have gone bust."

There must be a reason for the discrepancy in the two opinions I guess but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe Pickles is a floater after all?

Hello babe:D

There's another one in there about how they've closed one half of the dock which is the same as the first post in this thread. Something about an economic downturn though Pickles swore on his grannies nick-nacks it was because they had the decorator's in or soemthing:T

mewbie_2

Don't be too hasty FF. I am sure there is an explanation. As Paul Davey said several hundred posts ago people will buy larger electronic goods in a recession, exchanging iPods for CD players for example. So maybe the new type of goods coming in will not fit on your average sized lorry. Of course the papers won't know, but Pickles will have the word on this development.