1.7m TEU at Risk as Northern Europe Ports Face Week-Long Strike Wave

Northern Europe’s busiest ports face a week of crippling strikes as dockworkers in Germany and the Netherlands down tools over wages and social security reforms, threatening to strand over 1.7 million TEU of global cargo already delayed by congestion. The first blow landed at midnight on September 2, when Germany’s Ver.di union launched a 48-hour warning strike across six major ports, Hamburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Emden, Brake, and Wilhelmshaven, affecting dos,000 workers. The action, which runs until the late shift on September 4, follows the rejection of a proposed 5.1% wage…

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