{"id":12574,"date":"2025-05-06T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/congestion-and-rising-costs-at-europes-box-ports-forecast-to-last-into-summer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:53:47","slug":"congestion-and-rising-costs-at-europes-box-ports-forecast-to-last-into-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/congestion-and-rising-costs-at-europes-box-ports-forecast-to-last-into-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Congestion and Rising Costs at Europe&#8217;s Box Ports Forecast to Last into Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Major congestion across north European ports is forecast to last well into the summer, with this week\u2019s strikes at Antwerp-Bruges not having helped the situation.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before the start of industrial action on Tuesday, yard utilization at Antwerp had already hit 96%, with reefer plugs reportedly over capacity at 112%.\u00a0More than 100 vessels were awaiting service after the strike concluded on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This latest strike is not the sole cause of the difficulties being felt in Northern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Maersk began to issue advisories in mid-April that operators were contending with \u201cincreasing congestion levels and operational disruptions at several ports,\u201d pointing to low inland water levels, amendments to ocean networks, and a drop in available labour.<\/p>\n<p>Added to which, said a spokesperson for the Belgian gateway<em>:<\/em>\u00a0\u201cSchedule reliability and large calls-sizes also are an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_83a8eb28-0b79-4717-8db8-41f8034145b5&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv3dxq6etbkehmpyvhdc5q68bbjd5tpjvk75nhpywvmecpp2x1dcnuq4vvgcntjurkff0pq0vvjehtjux3f5np62wvm5nmpwx3f5ntqavbdcnt2y&amp;n=7\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_83a8eb28-0b79-4717-8db8-41f8034145b5&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv3dxq6etbkehmpyvhdc5q68bbjd5tpjvk75nhpywvmecpp2x1dcnuq4vvgcntjurkff0pq0vvjehtjux3f5np62wvm5nmpwx3f5ntqavbdcnt2y&amp;n=7\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">article from The Loadstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major congestion across north European ports is forecast to last well into the summer, with this week\u2019s strikes at Antwerp-Bruges not having helped the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1777,108],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-12574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-antwerp-bruges-en","tag-maersk-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12575,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions\/12575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}