‘Exceptionally challenging’: how rising shipping costs hit UK firms

Like many companies, Pickering's Gin have faced supply chain disruption and rising prices during the pandemic

The low point for Matt Gammell, co-founder of Pickering's Gin, came last spring when he got down to his last pallet of glass bottles.

A longstanding order with a European glass maker was cancelled at short notice, and the Edinburgh-based spirit maker feared it might have to stop production.