Ports

Less freight risks mass layoffs at major UK port

Declining container volumes require the owner of the Port of Liverpool to make savings, which could result in 125 dockworkers becoming redundant..
A dock worker walks past towers of containers at the Port of Liverpool. The volume of containers at UK ports has dropped 12 percent in the first half of 2023. | Photo: Phil Noble/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
A dock worker walks past towers of containers at the Port of Liverpool. The volume of containers at UK ports has dropped 12 percent in the first half of 2023. | Photo: Phil Noble/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by KIT LINDHARDT

The Port of Liverpool, one of the UK’s largest ports, is facing layoffs following two years of decline in the amount of cargo passing through the port.

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