News / Dispute at Gothenburg pushes container traffic to capital's expanding port

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The continuing stand-off between labour and management at Sweden’s main box gateway of Gothenburg is beginning to have a structural impact on the country’s container supply chains.

Gothenburg reported a 19% decline in container shipments in 2017, the port’s largest ever throughput fall, due to the “long-running labour dispute between the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union and the terminal operator APM Terminals Gothenburg”.

It “had impacted in part on volumes for 2016, although the repercussions were greatest in 2017”, it said. It handled 644,000 teu ...