Aerial view of the Port of Felixstowe. Photo credit: John Fielding

Felixstowe strike threatens Christmas

Image: WikimediaCommons. John Fielding

A damaging strike is underway at Felixstowe. It’s the busiest intermodal port in the UK, and a key rail freight terminal. Already there are concerns that the damage to the supply chain could take months to unwind. With retailers already planning ahead for the festive season, and ships forced to turn away from the Suffolk port, this heated summer dispute could be the harbinger of a bitter winter of disappointment for shoppers and shopkeepers.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

1 comment op “Felixstowe strike threatens Christmas”

bönström bönström|22.08.22|12:09

Not just for sake of X-mas, but for sustainability, simply Goal of EU…, shall remain!
Regrettably, however, robustness, core value of sea transports, now has been sacrificed, for low costs – and even worse servilely – by big ports provided for…
Thereby, now a mono structure, Industry has turned – vuulnerable.
For sake of hemisphere, for all, infrastructure of England/Scotland shall prove robust!
(Diversity is Strategy, for meeting with risks – for sustainability!…)

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Aerial view of the Port of Felixstowe. Photo credit: John Fielding

Felixstowe strike threatens Christmas

Image: WikimediaCommons. John Fielding

A damaging strike is underway at Felixstowe. It’s the busiest intermodal port in the UK, and a key rail freight terminal. Already there are concerns that the damage to the supply chain could take months to unwind. With retailers already planning ahead for the festive season, and ships forced to turn away from the Suffolk port, this heated summer dispute could be the harbinger of a bitter winter of disappointment for shoppers and shopkeepers.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

1 comment op “Felixstowe strike threatens Christmas”

bönström bönström|22.08.22|12:09

Not just for sake of X-mas, but for sustainability, simply Goal of EU…, shall remain!
Regrettably, however, robustness, core value of sea transports, now has been sacrificed, for low costs – and even worse servilely – by big ports provided for…
Thereby, now a mono structure, Industry has turned – vuulnerable.
For sake of hemisphere, for all, infrastructure of England/Scotland shall prove robust!
(Diversity is Strategy, for meeting with risks – for sustainability!…)

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