News / Relief for shippers in Brazil as new talks are set and union suspends port strikes

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Shippers and importers in Brazil, fearful that a crippling dock strike was about to about to be unleashed on the country’s maritime transport system days before the World Cup, breathed a sigh of relief yesterday at news of a last-minute reprieve.

The country’s largest dockworkers’ union, the FNE, cancelled the strike, which was due to begin yesterday, for an unspecified period, and coincide with a range of industrial action in the run-up to the world’s largest football event.

However, a new date ...