London Gateway calls for patience as Zim Rotterdam boxes start to ship out

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ZIM and London Gateway, the DP World port scheduled to open in November, this morning advised cargo owners and forwarders waiting for boxes from the stricken boxship Zim Rotterdam that they are working as quickly as possible to clear the ship’s containers, which were unloaded last week. They stressed that “the service levels being experienced at present are only temporary”.

Zim Rotterdam suffered a fire last month and had been unable to berth at its destination port of Felixstowe until September 22 ...