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Carriers seeking to avoid congestion across North European ports helped spur the UK’s London Gateway to a record performance, as it handled more than 1m teu in the first half of the year.

Surpassing the million teu mark for the first time, Gateway reported a 10% ...

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  • Hans-Henrik Nielsen

    July 29, 2022 at 5:54 am

    With an upcoming “labour event” @ FLX, LGW will be well positioned to benefit from same.

    Not that long ago … another labour dispute was frontline news. Now it’s already forgotten. How fast the world moves !

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