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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 ...

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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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