UK PORTS suffered serious congestion in late-2020 after they were faced with a‘perfect storm’ofChristmas,pre-Brexit stockpiling and Covid-19 industrial recovery. Disruption at major hub ports such as Southampton and Felixstowespreadto container ports in Scotland in December, forcing logisticscompanies and portoperators to seek alternativeroutestodeliver goods to their customers. Scottish logistics specialist PeterDStirling worked with Peel PortsinLiverpooland three large European shipping lines to ensurecontainersof Christmas-relatedfreightwere delivered to Scotland in time for the big day.
One of the additional Liverpool to Mossend intermodal workings in Mossend yard with a Peter D Stirling HGV off to make a delivery.
Anumber of ships were divertedfromSouth Coast ports to Liverpool forunloading and onward deliverybyrailto Mossend.
Additional intermodal trains were operated byDRS and DB Cargo between Liverpool and Scotland,saving a large number of lorry trips and reducing transit time.