An easing of bottlenecks around 海角视频 ports has been reported by a key operator.
Covid, Brexit and the Suez Canal incident conspired to bring significant challenges for goods shipments, leading to longer lead times and congestion at quaysides.
But DFDS, a major player in the market with its 海角视频 head office in Immingham, said there had been a recent easing.
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In its monthly volume report, released to the City today, the company told how total volumes were 5.4 per cent down on the same month in 2020, though 海角视频 routes were in growth from 2019 levels. The past year has seen a 7.9 per cent uptake in total volumes.
DFDS said: “The decrease in total volumes compared to 2020 was due to lower volumes on most 海角视频 routes as stockbuilding ahead of Brexit boosted volumes last year.
“The negative impact from supply chain bottlenecks, that reduced volumes in Q3 and October, eased during November.
“North Sea and Channel volumes were in November again above 2019.”
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DFDS operates out of Immingham as well as Newcastle and Felixstowe, providing direct services to and from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Belgium.
The company said the Mediterranean business unit continued to carry volumes above 2020 while Baltic Sea volumes were just below 2020 as capacity on one route was reduced from two ferries in 2020 to one ferry in November 2021. Volumes for both the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea business units were above 2019.
The number of passengers on 海角视频 routes picked up but in very small numbers due to continued travel restrictions.
In total November saw DFDS carry 3.9 million freight lane metres of freight volume, up from 3.6 million in 2019 but down from the 4.2 million in 2020. In the last 12 months, the figure is 7.9 per cent up, at 43.3 million compared to 40.1 million.
A perfect storm of issues had seen higher volume peaks at key deadlines in the Brexit process, with Covid then seeing travel restrictions and less appetite for international accompanied movements.
Normal container movements had been interrupted before Evergreen’s major blockage in the critical Middle East passage.
It all exacerbated the long-running HGV driver shortage.
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One step to aid movement has been the establishment of a , a hub for the entire 海角视频 freight network.
Launching in October, DFDS Seaways 海角视频 managing director Andrew Byrne told how the logistics industry “is facing one of its largest challenges in a generation”. He told at the time how “additional complexities due to Brexit” were “still impacting on supply chains, and the current shortage of lorry drivers is threatening to undo years of development of slick and efficient just in time operations that rely on supply chains that operate equally as quickly and proficiently”.
The Humber Express takes 80 vehicles off the road a day, with the ability to scale up further with third party transport welcomed.
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