BBCNEWS BBC News August 4, 2021 12:38:00
Additional weeks before it is shipped on the vessel. some businesses are happy. with space on their services so scarce and cargo rates so high, the shipping lines themselves are making record profits, although they argue this is simply compensation for the many lean years they have suffered in the past. but they are the only happy ones. for importers, retailers and consumers in europe and north america, as well as supplies in east asia, this is a crisis they could certainly do without. and the ever given remains a potent symbol of a troubled year they would like to forget. theo leggett, bbc ne...