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Shipping squeeze on global trade heralds an unhappy Christmas
Pressure on every aspect of the global trade network is squeezing importers when they can least afford it
10 December 2020 • 6:00am
Christmas was supposed to be the saving grace of 2020 for Gaynor Humphrey and her colleagues at Best Years.
The toy company in Northamptonshire has had a brutal 12 months - it supplies museum shops with knitted dinosaurs and other cuddly creatures, but those sites were closed for months.
But instead of ramping up sales in the closing weeks of the year, Humphrey is about to send her staff home for a very early festive break.