I figured out my mistake.
The start.sh script specifies host and container port as follows :
docker run -d --name qewd --rm --network qewd-net -p 3001:8080 -v /mnt/cache.dsk/qewd/qewd-baseline:/opt/qewd/mapped rtweed/qewd-server
So since docker port assignement is : -p host_port:container_port the host maps 3001 to 8080 in the container.
Yet for my instance it works with -p 8080:3001 since the server in the container is listening to port 3001.
I guess the reason for that is that I added a "port" line in the /qewd-baseline/configuration/config.json file (at least I think I did, can't remember) :