News / Transatlantic services hit by Covid and conflict-induced congestion

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Service disruptions are moving around the globe like a Mexican wave at a football match with US east coast ports hit from the spill over from the west coast and European ports dealing with incoming Russian transhipment cargo, causing carriers to blank Atlantic services.

According to a US-based forwarder congestion on the east coast is driven by “spill-over” cargo from California, which has slowed cargo out of Europe heading for the US.

“We are starting to see the strings on the Europe ...