2023-12-21 12:54:00
Customs officers at Liège airport are still on work-to-rule strike. They carefully check all packages and this causes delays. Our teams went to a warehouse where there were many stranded packages.
In the vast ECDC Logistics warehouse, half of the packages arriving by boat or plane are waiting for a customs officer to pass before they can continue on their way. In general, it takes two weeks maximum. This time, the packages have been stuck for more than a month.
Since December 11, customs officers at Liège airport have totaled three days of total work stoppage and eight days of work-to-rule strike. Negotiations are stuck on their new schedules and the impact they would have on their work-life balance.
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This situation carries a certain risk of seeing gifts arrive late under the tree. “The impact is quite limited. We have 50 million declarations and of these 50 million, around 2,000 suffer from a delay“, reassures Florence Angelici, spokesperson for the FPS Finances. Ashley Detheux, director of ECDC Logistics, does not see things the same way: “What we see is that our warehouses are filling up and our customers are complaining..”
Grace-Hollogne Customs parcels Liège
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