Zim offers shunt to Tilbury for boxes stuck at Gateway, but will charge £175

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Forwarders still waiting for 1,000 containers at London Gateway from the Zim Rotterdam to be cleared, have been offered a road shunt service to Tilbury by the Israeli carrier, but it will charge them £175 per box.

The 10,000teu vessel departed the port last week after discharging 3,090 containers that should have gone to Felixstowe but were taken to Gateway after a fire on the ship. A combination of problems, reported last week in The Loadstar, at the new port which ...