Early warning 丨 foreign trade and freight forwarding business attention, the three countries appear strike or port of Serbia, the goods will face a serious delay!

Recently, a number of terminals appeared in the workers strike, the terminal will be affected by the loading and unloading, may cause the goods stranded in the port, foreign trade and freight forwarding enterprises to pay attention.

01, all ports in Spain

The Spanish dock union is going to take a port strike late this month to protest the government's plan to reform the national port system.

All ports in Spain, including major ports such as Barcelona (BARCELONA), Valencia (VALENCIA), Algeciras (ALGECIRAS), may be at risk of downtime due to strikes.

According to Jacqueline Smith, coordinator of maritime transport operations at the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), the union is scheduled to take place on the 20th, 22nd and 24th of this month.

According to IHS Fairplay reports, the government plans to reform the Spanish Pier Labor Law, the goal is to maintain consistent with the EU single market regulations.

The union said that the government's proposal would result in more than six thousand wharf workers being unemployed.

It is reported that there are several terminals of the cargo handling began to slow down, a shipping company plans to strike part of the ship during the strike to the French port.

02, Chittagong, Bangladesh

According to Bangladesh's "Daily Express" reported on February 13, Bangladesh Chittagong port (CHITTAGONG) barge workers suddenly announced a strike on Saturday, the current strike is still continuing, has caused the local cargo ship more than the port, can not reach the port The

Last October, the government will bargain workers wages from 6900TK rose to 9650TK, but the vast majority of owners have not risen wages, causing a strike.

Chittagong is dubbed the "world first block", due to the backward port facilities, the handling of goods is slow, the port perennial congestion, the strike will make congestion more serious.

03, Gothenburg, Sweden

According to the press release of the APM terminal in Goteborg, Sweden, the conflict between dock workers and APM terminals continues.

Dock workers have announced that they will be stalled next week: February 21 pm from 1 pm to 6 pm, 10 pm to 2 am; suspend work for 8 hours at noon on February 23rd.

Strikes will affect the dock loading and unloading operations, may cause the goods to stay in Hong Kong, foreign trade and freight forwarding enterprises need to pay attention.

According to Swedish industrial media Dagens Industri, Henrik Kristensen, general manager of the APD terminal in Göteborg, urged the Swedish government to take action as soon as possible to help resolve the months-long conflict that began this spring, which has led to several strikes and delayed cargo deal with.

Goteborg recently announced that the port throughput in the port was reduced by 3% in 2016 due to a "total damage" in the conflict between workers and docks