Hanjin bankrupcy

[MichaelW2]

The business I work for has product aboard a Hanjin container ship which is stuck due to the collapse of the company. There must be thousands of other companies who are affected, even if they don't realise it yet, because of the way their supply chains are structured.
How many bikes and spares are currently floating around the South China Sea instead of making their way to the shops.

 

[snorri]

Yes, not good. I've been getting updates on gCaptain......
http://gcaptain.com/hanjin-captains-ordered-slow-steam-drift-avoid-arrest/

 

[Cheddar George]

Good news, Hanjin did not send my container on one of their own ships so it docked in Felixstowe.

Bad news, the port are demanding £ 460.00 "collection fee".

 

[Cheddar George]

What's in it, George? If you don't mind me asking. I'm imagining that it's fake iPhones and handbags.......but I might be wrong.

My camel hair coat and trilby hat may have given you the wrong idea.

Electric motors. Genuine electric motors.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

£ 460.00 "collection fee".

Yeah - just collect it while you are passing on the bike

 

[Cheddar George]

..... and the port are also charging a £ 2000.00 deposit on the container !

 

[midlife]

My camel hair coat and trilby hat may have given you the wrong idea.

Electric motors. Genuine electric motors.

A whole container of electric motors....... are you relaunching the Sinclair C5

 

[Cheddar George]

Flippant we might be, but I am genuinely sorry, George. This takes me back to my work days importing and selling timber. It can be so frustrating when you have already fully paid for the goods.

It's an unusual situation and the port are holding all the cards (ie. my container). I could enter into negotiations but i would probably just be adding more storage fees as time goes by.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Electric motors. Genuine electric motors.

Well that's what's on the manifest..........

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Flippant we might be, but I am genuinely sorry, George. This takes me back to my work days importing and selling timber. It can be so frustrating when you have already fully paid for the goods.

Agreed - it's unfunny really. But let's try for the lighter side for sanity's sake.

Hope you don't mind @Cheddar George

 

[Cheddar George]

Agreed - it's unfunny really. But let's try for the lighter side for sanity's sake.

Hope you don't mind @Cheddar George

If i couldn't laugh at this sort of thing i would have had a heart attack years ago.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My camel hair coat and trilby hat may have given you the wrong idea.

Electric motors. Genuine electric motors.

Genuine copies or genuine reproductions?

 

[Rezillo]

The Felixstowe fees are discussed here:

http://www.bifa.org/news/articles/2016/sep/update-on-hanjin-and-containers-at-felixstowe?l=y

 

[Gravity Aided]

..... and the port are also charging a £ 2000.00 deposit on the container !

I could buy a container for 2,000 pounds!

 

[Tin Pot]

It's an unusual situation and the port are holding all the cards (ie. my container). I could enter into negotiations but i would probably just be adding more storage fees as time goes by.

This would be business as usual at a Brazilian port.