News / Now OOCL switches services to Southampton, as Felixstowe delays drag on

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OOCL has piled further pressure on Felixstowe, announcing it is leaving the UK gateway while “severe” operational delays continue to plague the port’s IT systems.

OOCL said its North Europe-Turkey route (NET) would instead use Southampton as its UK port of call.

“Felixstowe Terminal continues to suffer with severe operational delays, both shipside and landside, following the introduction of the new terminal IT system nGen,” it said in a customer advisory.

“Updates and improvements subsequently made by the port have so far not yielded the desired ...