News / Carriers struggle to navigate storm delays and continued port congestion

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Storms barrelling in across North Europe last weekend caused container terminals to halt operations for long periods, adding to ocean carrier vessel schedule delays.

According to a Maersk customer advisory, between Thursday 17 and Sunday 20 February, operations were suspended for an average of 72 hours across its network of North European ports.

“This has caused further disruptions at the terminals and a backlog of vessels waiting to berth,” said Maersk, adding it was now focusing on recovering the delays to vessel schedules ...