Strike at UK’s biggest port threatens supply chain disruption

Supply chains in the UK face disruption this week as industrial action spreads from the public transport network to the country’s busiest container port.

More than 1,900 members of the Unite union began an eight-day strike at Felixstowe on Sunday in a dispute over pay. The port handles 40 per cent of the UK’s container trade, equivalent to 4mn containers a year.

The Russell Group, an analytics company, estimated that as much as…