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- HMS Queen Elizabeth: Life on board Royal Navy aircraft carrierAble Rating William Augustine shows the BBC around the Royal Navy aircraft carrier as it heads home.
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- China, shipping and Brexit: why UK may face Christmas toy shortageTo get on to shelves, Chinese-made items must overcome shortfall in electricity and workers, as well as shipping crisisAt a toy factory in south-east China, boxes of plastic dart guns are stacked across the floor. Sometimes, so many packages pile up that they stretch into the production area, slowing the work of making more toys.What to do with all the blaster guns, which have been sold to retailers in the UK but cannot find room on ships to get them there, is a problem for Nick Mowbray, the co-founder of Zuru Toys. The company expects to generate about $1.1bn (£815m) in revenue this year than...
- Suez Canal to raise fees, heaping pressure on global supply chainsWith shipping industry still recovering from Ever Given crisis, transit tolls are increasing by 6% The Suez Canal Authority is increasing the fees it charges ships passing through the critical waterway, in a move expected to pile further inflationary pressure on global supply chains. It will seek to capitalise on the recovery in cargo trade by raising its transit tolls by 6% from February, 11 months after the canal was blocked for nearly a week by the Ever Given container ship. About 12% of international trade passes through the canal, which is the shortest maritime route between Asia and Euro...
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