Felixstowe Docks in trouble?

pickles110564

Generali wrote: »

Preumably in the short term, Felixstowe (and other ports across the world) will be cutting staff as trade volumes are falling quickly.

Longer term, if Felixstowe are as good as I think you've said in the past there will be opportunities for them as less competitive ports go bust leaving the survivors with a larger share of the market and the ability to levy higher fees.

Generali, to a certain extent you are correct but several of the UK Ports have started to put into place expansion plans and if these still go ahead there will be over capacity for several years(and that was at 2007 volume predictions).
It is going to be hard for the next few years but the PORT will do what it has always done. Through the excellant employee's the customers will continue to get excellant service making them want to stay at Felixstowe and will continue to attract new customers that will come out the other side of this recession.

neverdespairgirl

pickles110564 wrote: »

Company's restructure to make themselves more fitter to take on thier competitors.
If company's dont they start to struggle and can end up like woolies etc and go out of business, making ALL their employees redundent.
Surely it is important that company's address situations that arise in the global economy straight away so that they are better equiped to face these arwful challenges head on and go from strength to strength.

But you denied there were any situations to be faced, it seems to me:

Clueless as usual, the Port broke its record of over 9100 boxes in a week.

Keep your chin up because I still believe that we will still see strong volumes through Felixstowe in 2009 and there will be a big anouncement from one of them in the next couple of weeks which will surprise a few of the PORT's competitors.

There will not be a disaster for the town and like I have said before the parent company is still be happy to be pumping money into the redevlopment as they know how strong the workforce is at keeping the customers happy.

As you say the last two recessions did not effect the PORT but this one is likely to be the biggest yet but I still remain confident in those managers around me to be out there winning business from our competitors.

SingleSue

Just to take a bit out of that quote

As you say the last two recessions did not effect the PORT but this one is likely to be the biggest yet but I still remain confident in those managers around me to be out there winning business from our competitors

It may not have had a direct effect on the company which operates the port but it had a huge effect on the associated companies...I was made redundant twice in the last recession and saw many many companies go pop.

pickles110564

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

But you denied there were any situations to be faced, it seems to me:

Clueless as usual, the Port broke its record of over 9100 boxes in a week.

That is because the Port did break its record of over 9100 boxes in a week by Rail, in the current climate. This was only achieved due to the excellant work of the employee's.

neverdespairgirl

I do admire your hard work and loyalty to your employer, Pickles. It's great to enjoy what you do for a living, and I think you do enjoy it.

FungusFighter

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Pickles, weren't some of the people writing earlier in this thread right, when they said there were difficulties, and you denied them?

NDG, you are mistaken - if you look back through the thread you will see LOADS of Pickles'es posts have DISAPPEARED!!! So there is no proff, apart from where he's been quoted that is:rotfl:

FungusFighter

jetski690 wrote: »

I'm sorry but that's not true, Pickles is fully aware of the people at risk and at the moment he is not one of them.

So why has he deleted all those posts? :rotfl:

Generali

FungusFighter wrote: »

So why has he deleted all those posts? :rotfl:

Which posts? I can't find any.

FungusFighter

pickles110564 wrote: »

I can confirm that I have not heard from anybody that there are going to be Hourly Paid redundencies.
I am getting sick and tired of people slagging the PORT of when they have not got a clue and all these made up rumours just scare people for no reason.
Facts are the only thing that should be written about.

You left that one in then Pickles mate, no straying from the company line for you eh? :beer:


ROLL UP ROLL UP TO THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING THREAD - FIRST LONGTUG NOW PICKLES HAVE WITHDRAWN THEIR POSTS ( not realising they are still there in quotes!!):rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

FungusFighter

:rotfl:

Generali wrote: »

Which posts? I can't find any.

That's because they've been deleted!!:beer:

Look forward from about page 24 - you will find Pickles quoted repeatedly but strangely, HE WAS NEVER THERE!!! :rotfl: Same with Longtug, conspiracy you think ?????

This thread was 32 pages on Saturday! :rotfl: