by Przemysław Myszka

The so-called port conflict in Gothenburg - an ongoing dispute between APM Terminals and the Swedish Dockworkers Union's Brach Four (Local 4) - has been impacting in an unprecedented manner transport & logistics in Sweden since spring 2016.

The redirection of approximately 240k TEU in 2017 alone generated negative economic, social, and environmental consequences felt as far as hundreds of kilometres up in the north of the country, as well as in other European seaports and on the continent's road and rail network.

It even forced the Löfven Cabinet, a coalition in which Social Democrats have the majority, to seriously consider weakening the union's right to undertake industrial action, a step which might put the country at odds with international labour conventions, not to mention the country's constitution itself.

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