In Southampton, delays to the UK retail supply chain may be a taste of what’s to come
Across the River Test from the port of Southampton is a point called Cracknore Hard. From there you can see the giant cruise liners such as Queen Mary 2 and Norwegian Encore sitting idle, and the hulking cranes of the docks, which are not. At the water’s edge John Fell is fishing for bass and flounder.
“I went to the tackle shop yesterday and they didn’t have the stuff I wanted,” he complains. “I couldn’t even get a net for my boat. There are shortages everywhere.”
