'One in five' workers off sick or isolating at port

'One in five' workers off sick or isolating at port
Testing times, the Fergusson terminal and testing area. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Brent Melville
Ports of Auckland (POAL) expects congestion to get worse as a fifth of its workers remained at home due to omicron stand-downs.In a note to customers on Friday, the nation’s busiest import gateway said absenteeism at an operational level had hit 20%, up from 12% just two days earlier. That’s as new community cases in New Zealand were reported at close to 15,000 on Sunday with 67,632 cases still considered ‘active’. Ports, road transport, courier operators and retail distribution are widely considered to be...

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