Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
The timing is justt very poor, in terms of overall optics, thanks to the President of the European Commission. It turns out what actually irked her was the fact that the previous UK - AZ agreement had allocated UK factories to the UK contract and effectively inhibits exports from the UK to EU (to cover AZ Europe factories' issues) until the UK has no critical need for the UK production.
But just don't call it a ban!
On a slightly less polemic note, with regards to India. My OH operated a flight from Delhi yesterday. The outbound was with passengers, inbound with only cargo. They had not to pick up 30 tons of cargo because some utter I-better-not-say-what over at LHR had damaged the cargo doors hinges by, as usual, being too damn lazy to use the engineering steps to close the hold and not the elevator. Only place in the world where it happens.
OH doesn't know what the cargo was but a large chunk of it was constant climate materials and, hearing from the captain who was being given a massive earful from London over this, freight forwarders in India are extremely backed up and releasing cargo from local authorities is even more painful than usual (and if you ever tried to get stuff in/our of India you know what I mean). Could be part of the explanation.