Businesses warn a Global Shipping crisis is causing freight costs to soar and uk consumers may soon see price rises for imported goods. On top of skyrocketing shipping rates, carriers are adding congestion charges for imports to felixstowe and southampton, because of severe delays. And the stockpiling of goods ahead of the end of the brexit transition period is making matters worse as emma simpson reports. This honda car plant in swindon, like all the other car manufacturers, when he needed, just just in time manufacturers, when he needed, justjust in time supply chain hit by delays caused by congestion at the ports. Its production line will not be running today as a result. Gary iu ns running today as a result. Gary runs an online toy company and has had weeks of delays at his busiest time of the year. We are particularly affected by things that we are importing coming in from china, on containers, lots of congestion at the ports and the ports cannot cope and there are some boats bein
Wray & Nephew, the Jamaican rum owned by Italian liquor brand Campari has launched a new grant program to support Black business owners living in the UK.