The disruptions are also having a knock-on effect at other UK ports such as Southampton where vessels are being diverted, causing additional cost and disruption.
The diversions are also causing shortage of truck drivers, thusresulting in delays in deliveries and turnaround of empty containers.
Toward the Christmas peak season, the chronicle congestion at the U.K.'s busiest container ports might generate a negative effect on supply chain in the U.K. as a whole.