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Supply chain disruption ‘could last until 2023’

The UK’s supply chain crisis could stick around for the next two years, Associated British Ports (ABP) has warned. In an interview with the Sunday Times,… View Article

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Supply chain disruption ‘could last until 2023’

The UK’s supply chain crisis could stick around for the next two years, Associated British Ports (ABP) has warned.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, ABP’s chief executive Henrik Pedersen said that when He would be “positively surprised” if the problem eased before the end of next year. “When you have congested container ports around the world, it takes a very long time to turn it around,” he said. “We have a shortage of truck drivers in the UK, and in other countries, too, so it [the problem] is in the shipping leg and the road leg.”

The British port operator, which is the biggest in the UK, has said that existing supply chain issues could last until 2023.

The chief exec’s comments come as retailers across the UK and around the world face significant supply chain cost increases.

Profit warnings issued by UK listed companies in consumer-facing sectors, including retail and grocery producers, accounted for 33 per cent of all warnings in the third quarter of the year as rising energy prices, supply bottlenecks, and labour shortages spread across the economy.

Last month, e-commerce giant Amazon revealed that it expects to rack up billions of dollars worth of extra costs to address supply chain disruption and labour shortages. IKEA said that it believed the supply chain crisis would continue into next year

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