News / MSC diverts another ship to Gateway as Felixstowe berthing delays hit five days

03/02/2014

A backlog of ships waiting to berth at the UK’s biggest container port of Felixstowe, prompted MSC to divert a second ship to the fledgling River Thames facility at London Gateway at the weekend.

High winds caused berthing delays of up to five days at the east UK port, prompting the diversion.

DP World London Gateway handled the 7,455teu MSC Vancouver, which operates MSCs Indian sub-continent-Europe service. The vessel arrived at 11:25am on Sunday and sailed in the early hours of today.

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Alex von Stempel
February 04, 2014 at 7:26 am
I wonder if the ‘patchwork quilt’ of port delays could be broken down into typical load ports, discharge ports and transshipment facilities. What is needed is a performance ranking in terms of individual supply chains…

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