Food costs drop but experts warn price hikes are coming on Brexit red-tape and rising shipping fees

Food costs are still going down… but experts warn that price hikes are on the horizon over Brexit red-tape and rising shipping costs Food prices fell by 0.3 per cent in May compared to the same month last year Annual fall in fresh food prices was 1 per cent, following April’s 1.5 per cent drop … Read more

Scam warning over Post Office shipping fee scam

New scam warning: Fake Post Office email asks people to pay ‘shipping fees’ to release non-existent deliveries Scammers are sending fraudulent emails pretending to be the Post Office  People are asked to click on a link to pay a shipping fee to release a delivery  However, they could well be conned out of hundreds of … Read more

Suez Canal backlog is CLEARED: More than 400 supertankers stuck in shipping traffic jam are freed

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority said on Saturday that a shipping traffic jam of over 400 tankers caused by a giant container vessel getting stuck on the crucial waterway for almost a week has been cleared. Traffic on the canal, a conduit for over 10 percent of world trade, had begun moving again on Monday evening … Read more

Suez Canal: Russia proposes Arctic shipping route as alternative to blocked waterway

Russia has proposed its Arctic shipping route as an alternative to the Suez Canal, which has been blocked since Tuesday.  State-run Russian energy company Rosatum boasted the alternative route has more room to draw rude pictures, in reference to the Ever Given’s penis-shaped water course in the Red Sea.      Eagle-eyed observers noticed the phallic shape … Read more

Russia proposes Arctic shipping route as alternative to Suez Canal and boasts ‘more room drawing’

Russia has proposed its Arctic shipping route as an alternative to the Suez Canal, which has been blocked since Tuesday.  State-run Russian energy company Rosatum boasted the alternative route has more room to draw rude pictures, in reference to the Ever Given’s penis-shaped water course in the Red Sea.      Eagle-eyed observers noticed the phallic shape … Read more

Shipping container chaos continues with import prices from the Far East surging

British businesses are facing thousands of pounds in extra costs and consumers the prospect of higher prices as a global shortage of containers continues to cause chaos. The average cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Asia to Northern Europe, including the UK, has skyrocketed from $1,752 last February to more than $8,000 at the … Read more

The coolest house in Britain? Knowle home looks like a huge shipping container in a field

From a distance, it looks a little like a giant metal shipping container or hangar sitting in the middle of the countryside. The reality is the property – named Hedge House – is a luxury home with a brick and wood exterior, designed and owned by architect David Sheppard. The trendy home comes with 6.5 … Read more

Paris flooded by Seine and German shipping stalled by high water as rivers across Europe burst banks

The SWAMPS-Élysées! Paris is flooded by the Seine and German shipping is stalled by high water levels under bridges as rivers across Europe burst their banks after torrential downpours The famous embankments and avenues of the capital were submerged under the river for the fifth day in a row on Saturday as the weather service … Read more

Biden administration will start shipping 1 million COVID-19 vaccines directly to US pharmacies e

The Biden administration will start shipping COVID-19 vaccines directly to U.S. pharmacies next week, ramping up immunizations as new and potentially more serious variants are appearing, the White House said on Tuesday.  Jeff Zients, coordinator of the president’s COVID-19 task force, said some 6,500 retail pharmacies around the country will receive a total of one million … Read more

South Africa converts shipping containers into morgues as nation struggles to bury Covid dead

Shipping containers have been converted into overflow morgues for the dead in South Africa, where a mutant variant of coronavirus has driven a second spike.   As mortuaries reached capacity, the country’s largest undertakers, AVBOB, distributed 22 refrigerated shipping containers to its funeral homes.   Coffins marked ‘highly contagious’ line the inside of the containers, where AVBOB … Read more