[Misc] Containers

[albionfan37]

It probably means very little to most on here, although you will be impacted at some point.
The cost to ship a container from China to the UK was £1800 or less. Today it is around £10,000 if you are lucky enough to even get one. Some of my 'cheap' goods come from China and my supplier told me this story a few weeks back. I thought he was making it up as an excuse to raise prices, but turns out to be true. Many reasons, not just Brexit or Covid but a mixture of both. Government holding a load of containers full of PPE whilst Felixtowe is backed up through Brexit. Many shippers now refusing to send here.

Just as well we’ve got our fish back then

 

[Wrong-Direction]

[emoji38]ol:
We have one kitchen cupboard packed solid with plastic containers, lids not on the containers, but in the cupboard somewhere. Mrs usually complains we need a bigger kitchen when she can’t find something in this cupboard.
I sorted this cupboard out once, messed up within days and I was in the wrong because she couldn’t find something.

Yeah that sounds about right!

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[Baker lite]

I hate the way you pollute this Board. You bring nothing of interest or value to any thread, simply friction and bitterness. It’s quite some talent to go through life diminishing rather than adding to everything you touch.

Love...not hate[emoji1308]
It will help lower your blood pressure. Failing that I always find a good Sincil helps, you know,bit of ‘Me time.’


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[The Wizard]

We also have a kitchen cupboard full of plastic containers for lunches and the like, lids strewn across the cupboard and containers piled haphazardly Jenga style. The other day I bought a set of 4 so I could prepare some meals and freeze them, used them once and they are all in the cupboard mixed up already. An absolute farce.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

WHERE DO THE F**KING LIDS GO?

I have so many containers and very few lids, WHO is responsible?

Lid (all)

 

[Justice]

So let's do a deal to import a sh!t tonne of goods from the USA and Australia rather than a far shorter distance... in Europe.

Frictionless trade meant frictionless trade. We voted against that.

We are now a 3rd Country. A minnow. We'll be feeding on scraps the rest of the world toss us for many years to come - and if we want anything from outside the UK, it'll cost us. If we move manufacturing to the UK, it'll cost us as we're an expensive country to manufacture products in.

Still, we're leaner, stronger, and better. Aren't we.

Why can’t we manufacture here? If it’s costing thousands to import surely it evens it self out.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Good. Want a planet to live on? Then it better be expensive to export/import things across the world.

Agreed,we need to go back to manufacturing or own stuff rather than funding the economies of other nations

 

[The Wizard]

Lid (all)

What? (The f**k)

 

[Charity Shield 1910]

The largest investment in London was the Chinese Royal Docks project. A part of the one belt one road project. There is (or was to be) a train between China and London docklands. It's a changed world.

 

[zefarelly]

Why can’t we manufacture here? If it’s costing thousands to import surely it evens it self out.

We can and do, its generally high quality and expensive.

Problem is we need materials, they don't grow on trees, and if they did we've chopped most of them down. We don't produce much metal any more.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Why can’t we manufacture here? If it’s costing thousands to import surely it evens it self out.

Exactly,create jobs in our own country and bring back the quality in the products we buy.

 

[A mex eyecan]

We can and do, its generally high quality and expensive.

Problem is we need materials, they don't grow on trees, and if they did we've chopped most of them down. We don't produce much metal any more.

surely though the raw materials have to be imported into the country of manufacture, then the finished goods exported to end using countries.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Simply stop buying shite from China [emoji2371]
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I think they call it “toot” from China.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

What? (The f**k)

Lid(all)
Lidl
Oh well, i thought it was worth at least a chuckle.

 

[Justice]

We should boycott China for infecting the world with Covid.

 

[Justice]

Exactly,create jobs in our own country and bring back the quality in the products we buy.

Agree the majority is throw away crap, washing machines, fridges, ovens no one gets repaired anymore unless it’s a Smeg or other high end product. The rest scraped and replaced.

 

[The Clamp]

It probably means very little to most on here, although you will be impacted at some point.
The cost to ship a container from China to the UK was £1800 or less. Today it is around £10,000 if you are lucky enough to even get one. Some of my 'cheap' goods come from China and my supplier told me this story a few weeks back. I thought he was making it up as an excuse to raise prices, but turns out to be true. Many reasons, not just Brexit or Covid but a mixture of both. Government holding a load of containers full of PPE whilst Felixtowe is backed up through Brexit. Many shippers now refusing to send here.

Yeah. Govt told us for five years this wouldn't happen. I hope this doesn't screw up your business too much.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Well... the way of life needs to change very suddenly. It cant go on.

And as I said, I'm as guilty as anyone but that doesnt change my perspective to "everything is perfect, let us all keep doing what we're doing".

As I've said plenty of times its perfectly possible to have opinions without living by those words, as its very difficult sometimes. You might want higher or lower taxes but as long as society tells you "these are the taxes", you will probably not pay more or less, right?

Its funny how often people accuse others of being hypocrites when its pretty much impossible not to be in some sense.

This reminds me of two of my family members. One conservative, one socialist. The former constantly jibes the latter for having beliefs without living by them. I'm no socialist but must be next to impossible to not be accused of being hypocritical. You'd almost have to opt out of the system.

 

[beorhthelm]

Why can’t we manufacture here? If it’s costing thousands to import surely it evens it self out.

mostly cost of labour, land, buildings and plant required. we do make quite a lot of stuff, its just high end, high value where those costs are amortised.

talking down quality of chinese product is open prejudice, im surprised its unchallenged. they make iphones there, tons of other branded high quality goods. they just make a lot of cheap, low quality stuff too, when there's poor quality control. thats the difference, not where its made, we can make plenty of crap here.

 

[banjo]

We can make it out of Bakelite we were good at that.