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Cargo ships forced to divert from UK ports amid containers backlog

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A shipping gint has declared its diverting vessels away from UK ports due to a build-up of cargo. Maersk has started rerouting its container ships away from Felixstowe, the UK's largest commercial port.

Instead, the ship will unload elsewhere in Europe before using smaller vessels to get deliveries to the UK, according to the Financial Times. Read more: 'It's like smash and grab': I went to three supermarkets - this is what was in short supply The head of global ocean network at Maersk, Lars Mikael Jensen, said the HGV driver shortage has impacted the time containers have to unload and picked up.

He said: “We had to stop operations on a ship because there was nowhere to discharge the containers,” he said. “Felixstowe is among the top two

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