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Shipping schedule reliability at all-time low
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Shipping schedule reliability has plunged to a historic low of six per cent from above 80 per cent before the pandemic.
Maritime Union of New Zealand national secretary Craig Harrison says there is now a very real danger of shipping services cutting back services.
Numbers from Sea Intelligence show the full extent of port congestion and shipping woes. The delays were initially forecast to end after Christmas, but the numbers show things have only deteriorated since then.
Shipping reliability across all ports was running at 70 per cent in August. Which means 70 per cent of ships were turning up to ports on time. But this fell to 8.87 per cent in November, with Auckland at 9.57 per cent and Tauranga operating at 7.5 per cent reliability. ....
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