By Jane Pettigrew
What issues are currently affecting the transportation of teas on board container ships? We discuss the causes of rising prices.
In the past 50 years or so, the way in which bulk quantities of tea have been shipped around the world has changed radically. Nets, cranes and dock workers have been replaced by containers; chests have given way to paper sacks; pallets and slipsheets have made the movement of those sacks faster and more efficient. The turn-around time of vessels in port has generally been reduced from several weeks to a few days. But things do not always run as smoothly as the industry would like and the job of shipping and logistics departments is extremely complicated.
