{"id":5484,"date":"2022-08-30T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2022-08-30T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:21:31","slug":"strike-at-port-of-felixstowe-set-to-upend-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/strike-at-port-of-felixstowe-set-to-upend-supply-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike at Port of Felixstowe Set to Upend Supply Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,000 dockers at the Port of Felixstowe began an eight-day walkout on Sunday, halting the flow of goods through the UK\u2019s largest gateway for containerized imports and exports, which handles about a third of Britain\u2019s total container volume and an even bigger share of direct trade with Asia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shipping lines plan to reroute cargo around the picket line, adding time and cost. A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S said last week that two ships will skip usual stops and unload Felixstowe-bound consignments at continental ports before sending them on when the strike ends. Another will switch to DP World Ltd.\u2019s London Gateway, the UK\u2019s third-busiest port.<\/p>\n<p>The strike could disrupt more than $800 million in trade, according to Russell Group, a data and analytics company. Though it\u2019s too soon to evaluate any wider hit to growth, companies are anticipating longer delivery times and higher expenses that can only hurt Britain\u2019s inflation-ravaged economy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_217da33a-4869-4d04-a939-ff4fadecb322&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfkjca364tkeh235mum4e1j5mu32h1n5n0kggj65mvkjdhp652k0g9r8cum8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyrbadxu2wrvfdmqpwtbqecqq6x3jd5npabb1egpq0vvjegppythdctjprubredu6yxv55ntpax1dehqjuxbgcnq68bbkenr70v3t5nhpgrb9dttkyxbmdnfp6rbde1gpjtve7njm4xbcdhjq8ubebwt34c1r68tjcxbmdnfputb4d5upufb5dngpjv16enu6uqvkdxuq4rv57ngqax3fe1mprvvm&amp;n=8\">article from the American Journal of Transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,000 dockers at the Port of Felixstowe began an eight-day walkout on Sunday, halting the flow of goods through the UK\u2019s largest gateway for containerized imports and exports, which handles about a third of Britain\u2019s total container volume and an even bigger share of direct trade with Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[491],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-port-of-felixstowe-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}