Maersk warns of delays in Rotterdam after port workers' strike
Maersk has advised that, following a strike at Hutchison Port Delta II in Rotterdam on ...
By Mike Wackett
Haropa, the union of the French ports of Paris, Rouen and Le Havre, has announced commercial rebates and tariff discounts for container lines calling at Le Havre in the face of continued social unrest.
Strikes and disruptions at French ports, organised by the powerful CGT union in protest at President Macron’s proposed pension system reform, began on 5 December and lasted for six weeks.
Further demonstrations around the country are expected today and there is a threat of another 24-hour strike at ...
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Platinum Accounting
November 18, 2020 at 8:12 pmUnsurprisingly, given the industrial uncertainty, transhipment at Le Havre also slumped, by 9.5% year on year, recording a loss of 72,000 teu which would have instead been relayed across the Benelux ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam