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The Team at Gateway are all still working
Everyone here at Gateway Cargo Systems, with-the-exception of Paul, is presently operating from their ‘household cocoons’.
Paul is manning the office taking calls, broadly 07:30 till 16:00 Monday to Friday.
We will continue to address any shipment arriving during the lock-down period on a shipment-by-shipment basis.
Within the constraints of Government edict of the day and the status of each individual client.
So, if you need advice, make a booking or get a quote.
By-all-means contact us!
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Phone: 0800-378-393
Dated: Tues 31st March
Port Constipation Predicted
Read News Article HERE.
The Road Transport Forum are bang-on in their summation in the above article.
Ports need to get full containers with non-essential goods off the port, but if there's nobody at the receiving end at work, where do you put them?
More-ever who arbitrates what is essential or not?
Is farm machinery less worthy than toilet paper?
What about a container with toilet paper, farm equipment, board games and gym gear?
And if there's just 1 container in 100 with products the country now deperately needs hitting our shores.
What's going to happen to the other 99%?
Can were expect port workers etc. to pull that one priority container from the growing stack?
Everything arriving into N.Z Ports over the next four weeks was after-all ordered months ago.
When Wuhan Flu was someone elses problem.
Will importers want to pay G.S.T on a container-load of products they can’t access or get to the market?
Where are these massive holding yards that are both a secure Customs Bonded Area & Approved MPI Transitional Facility?
Not well thought out there Minister of Transport, Phil Twyford.
This won't be a case of mild constipation either!
Up-Date: Finance Minister Grant Robertson verbally stated (Friday 27th March) businesses will be able to open their warehouses to receive incoming shipments of non-essential goods to alleviate congestion. Subsequent to this statement nothing has been definitively stated by the Government confirming this relaxation as at Tuesday 31st.
Up-Date # 2: Refer our news article dated 02nd April in which David Seymour finally gets Phil Twyford (Minister of Transport) to clarify the position of the logistics industry/importers when it came to unloading containers with non-essential products.
Article Posted: Thursday 26th March
Special Thanks to the Store Workers & Drivers still working 'out there'
All of us here would like to acknowledge the store workers, couriers and truckies still ‘at it’ in these difficult times.
Ensuring there’s food on the shelves.
Vital equipment can get where it needs to go.
You are all awesome men & women!
