We have looked at Felixstowi and Southampton ports an attempted
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to experience for ourselves the frustration created by congestion at tr docks. Scuthamptont but development director, Dere Smith, estimates that 350.0 Tucks flow through SCT ea year. Felixstowe's corporate manager, Paul Davey unoff puts the figure around a ml at both its Suffolk terminals. A call round some of the r container firms reveals they between £35-45 a truck for hour a vehicle is queuing.
If we assume that on ave each vehicle in the port wai conservative 1.5 hours to g and out. we are talking abo staggering £23.6m lost eve year at Southampton. If this applied to Felixstowe the fic.. is as high as £67.5m. So jut at these two ports delays at hauliers at over £90m per y a situation that is, to say tl:east, absolutely disgracek
Factor in driver costs anc the price of cancelled loadt and the true figure is almos certainly over £125m per ye which hauliers are being as to absorb. How long will thit situation carry on? Unfortun only the container terminal operators have the answer.