December 2019

A new Portsmouth to Antwerp shipping route offers an alternative to anyone worried about a chaotic Brexit. Ben Harraway, commercial manager at Portico, explains why the route is so attractive. This feature originally appeared in The Times & Raconteur's 'Innovating the supply chain' supplement on 10 December 2019. What will Brexit bring to the UK’s ports? As a commercial manager at one of Britain’s busiest ports let me tell you this: no one knows. We don’t know what the export rules...

By Gareth Colwell

The first Geest Line ship docked at Portico on Friday 6 December after the firm announced it would be returning to the Hampshire port. Its cargo of bananas brought from the Caribbean will be distributed across the country. The ship Luzon Strait arrived after a transatlantic crossing of around nine days carrying 9,000 pallets of cargo. The decision to return has been positively received by both banana and general freight customers. Geest Line has been an exclusively Europe-to-Caribbean freight operator for more than 60...

By Gareth Colwell