News / Scottish whisky shippers on the rocks as dock workers at Grangemouth launch strike

A two-week strike beginning today at Scotland’s biggest container port of Grangemouth threatens to seriously disrupt the supply chain for Scottish exporters and importers – not least for its major export of whisky.

And when the strike ends on Tuesday 29 March, the Unite union will impose a ban on overtime.

Grangemouth is owned and operated by Forth Ports and handles over 150,000 containers a year, mainly transhipment cargo between Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg, with coastal feeds to and from the UK’s biggest container port of Felixstowe.

Grangemouth is the UK’s ...