Around 1900 dockworkers at Felixstowe staged an eight-day stroking action starting 21 August, 2022, demanding an inflation-busting pay increase. The subsequent knock-on impact would reveal itself shortly.

The Port of Felixstowe is viewed as the key logistical cog in the UK, with 17 shipping routes operating through it. The striking action is expected to greatly disrupt the US, and even the European supply chains. However, the spokesman for the British Ports Authority insisted on claiming that the resilience of the UK port industry would be strong enough to weather the storm. While Russell Group, an association of research-intensive universities in the UK, analyzed that a loss of 800 million USD in trade would come along.   

Some major shipping conglomerates like Maersk responded to the walking-out by diverting vessels away from the Port of Felixstowe to minimize shipping delays. As of August 21, there had been up to 33 vessels affected adversely, with an increasing number in its wake.

According to information from IQAX, the following vessels would feel the pinch of the strike:

BF Fortaleza, BG Ireland, Cosco Shipping Star, Cosco Vietnam, CSCL Brisbane, Evelyn Maersk, Ever Alp, Henrika Schulte, Jazan, MSC Allegra, MSC Cancun, MSC Clorinda, MSC Daisy, MSC Flavia, MSC Geneva, MSC Ingrid, MSC Istanbul, MSC La Spezia, MSC London, MSC Margrit, MSC Melissa, MSC Mirja, MSC Paloma, MSC Sarah, MSC Soraya, MSC Sveva, MSC Teresa, OOCL Hong Kong, Spirit, Sven D, Vilnia Maersk, Wec de Hoogh, and YM Evolution.