{"id":330,"date":"2018-09-20T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/09\/20\/antwerp-insists-operations-normal-post-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:43:55","slug":"antwerp-insists-operations-normal-post-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/antwerp-insists-operations-normal-post-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp insists operations normal post-strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The planned 24-hour strike began on Monday but was called off on Tuesday, said the port. However, in a statement on its website on Wednesday 19 September, intermodal operator Contargo said: \u201cThere are still 30 ocean-going vessels waiting to enter Antwerp, and three have not been able to run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the port told <em>Port Strategy<\/em> today: \u201cOperations have resumed. The strike was put to an end on Tuesday and employees are back at work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson confirmed there are no backlog issues at the port. However, Contargo said that while the situation has improved slightly, inland waterway traffic and increased waiting times should be expected \u201cdue to the strike aftermath\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A compromise was reached between Minister Homans and the unions and a second strike planned for Friday 21 September has also been cancelled, according to Contargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Antwerp has said operations have returned to normal following a strike by the Flemish Pilotage Service union which led to a backlog of vessels and container handling delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}