News / Port congestion eases as Eurozone trade 'blows a gasket' in danger of seizing up

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Container terminal and landside congestion, which has hampered operations in many north European ports this year, could ease significantly, if the latest Global Port Tracker prediction of weak growth for the final three months of 2014 and the first half of next year are correct.

According to Ben Hackett, one of the authors of the monthly North Europe Trade Outlook report, the engine of the European economy has already “blown a gasket” and is now “in danger of coming to a ...