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Shipping continues to be a major challenge for ALL exporters https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/...term-challenge
Beef prices tracking the right way......
Supply chain drag on US beef bonanza | Farmers Weekly
Just noticed share price slid back to 0.90c - perhaps time to buy some more......or at least a cheeky bid!
Serious staff shortages at SFF in Northland and right across the industry. An article in the Herald today behind the paywall https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...JWIQNFPSFITAY/
I like the cut of your jib mate. You're not afraid to post objective articles about the serious challenges faced despite holding a large sized stake in the company. Hat tip to you.
For what its worth I think the shipping issue is "bigger than Texas" and isn't going away anytime soon and is going to affect a lot of companies.
Certainly it isn't going away for a while and a major for many companies. Shipping companies have some cost, but also some price gouging going on in areas.
For meat companies, apart from just plain getting product to customers on time, a major issue is chilled - ie uncertainties when product will load and when it will arrive. There are stories about containers arriving after its due date - lose the chilled "premium" and also potentially have further risks/costs than just packing frozen. Airfreight expensive to many chilled destinations like the EU.
In terms of SFF, will be a challenge - but see post #310. While still challenging, would think they'd be fairing better than many of their NZ competitors.
Silver Fern Farms Ltd's CEO Simon Limmer comments to farmers suppliers and shareholders.in one of his fortnightly updates.
Responding
to Global
Supply Chain
Disruption
We’ve previously signalled the ongoing disruption in the Global
Supply Chain and the congestion it creates back through New
Zealand ports and into our own cold chain. These disruptions
have not lessened and in some cases have deteriorated
further.
For context, all of our 20 cold stores across the country are
running at ~90% capacity, and a slight delay to shipping
schedules could see these reach 100%. At times these
constraints have meant we have not been able to fully optimise
our capacity by working the volume of daily overtime or
Saturdays we would like.
Throughout this challenging period we’ve worked closely with
our logistics partners to ensure we maximise our physical
loading of product from our cold stores to our markets.
Pleasingly, we achieved a record export month for March,
amidst these trying circumstances. However our cold stores
remain close to capacity and our daily objective of maximising
loadouts from cold stores and minimising the disruption to our
farmer partners continues. Given these circumstances we have
implemented a team solely focused on ‘Keeping Silver Fern
Farms Moving’ – this team has the best interest of our farmer
partners front of mind.
Today’s operating environment is fluid, with hot spots
appearing frequently and in multiple locations across the
country.
For example: an export vessel is delayed three days into a
South Island port, this port becomes congested with outbound
containers and closes temporarily. Silver Fern Farms cannot load
out and our cold stores in this region reach capacity. A decision
is needed quickly around processing capacity and livestock
procurement.
When this occurs we have the benefit of utilising Silver Fern
Farms’ national network to move livestock between regions
where there is less supply chain pressure, minimising the impact
on our overall weekly kill tally.
As an example Silver Fern Farms has moved over 40,000 stock
units between the North and South Islands over the last six
weeks, to help ease pressure off a number of farms.
The great news is that demand for our safe, sustainable, grassfed products continues to be strong in all our key markets. The
immediate challenge is getting our product through the supply
chain and to our customers around the world.
I personally want to thank everyone that is making this happen
in such challenging circumstances
It is of paramount importance that we investors in primary industries and any export businesses for that matter, follow closely the serious challenges these industries face with staff shortages and transport. These issues also have direct negative effect on NZ Inc and our economy because primary exports is what is driving our economy at the moment. We can not afford any serious hickups.
I spoke to a guy today who told me about the same issues in the Greenshell Mussels industry where production has been cut back in a big way due to staff shortages and as an example, a factory that used to employ 300 staff (historically many of them temporary visa holders) could now only get 100 which is not to keep the factory going so is now trucking mussels long distances to another factory.
Sadly, like the SFF article in the Herald clearly states, the Government does not seem to understand the consequences of not allowing temporary workers in.
How long ago was that Percy?
Production should be tapering off at many plants, so hopefully situation should be easing.....