Kiel, March 9, 2012: Kiel’s plan to create a big berth facility for cruise ships is steadily taking on more shape. For the first time, the PORT OF KIEL is presenting a visual display of the new Ostuferhafen Cruise Shipping Berth 1 project to an international audience at the upcoming Cruise Shipping Trade Fair in Miami from March 12th to March 15th. Dr Dirk Claus, Managing Director of the SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co KG, said “we are investing long-term in the expansion of our capacities. From as early as next year we will also be in a position to handle cruise ship passenger exchanges in the Ostuferhafen”. The creation of the Berth 1 facility in the Ostuferhafen means that Kiel will have four terminal berth facilities available for cruise ships, three of them capable of handling big vessels. The future Cruise Shipping Berth 1 will have a quay length of 395 metres on a water depth of 10.5 metres and will have all the facilities needed to process the ships. The handling terminal building for passengers and luggage will cover a ground area of 3,000 m² and will be capable of extension at any time as required. From a transport point of view, the Ostuferhafen has an ideal link to the motorway network. More than 400 long-stay parking places for cars are available directly at the handling terminal along with sufficient parking slots for shuttle buses and coaches.

The capacity expansion is necessary to relieve the city’s Ostseekai Terminal which gets particularly busy at weekends during the summer season. “We offer a very attractive overall package”, said Dirk Claus. “Even though the new berth is not directly located in the city centre, the situation for passenger exchange business still compares very favourably with that in Copenhagen. The Cruise Shipping Berth 1 will further strengthen our market position”, he said. All current and conceivable future ship sizes can be accepted at the Ostuferhafen. The terminal site has plenty of space available and also opens up opportunities to shipping companies for individual company branding.

During this year’s cruise shipping season, which will be opened on March 31st by the “AIDAcara”, Kiel expects 138 calls by 25 different cruise ships. The most frequent guests will be vessels belonging to the shipping companies AIDA, Costa, MSC and TUI Cruises which regularly exchange passengers in Kiel. Eight cruise ships will call at Kiel for the first time, among them Cunard’s “Queen Elizabeth” which is expected at the Ostseekai Terminal on July 24th.  Dirk Claus said “the number of ships calling at Kiel with international guests is rising all the time. Marketing ourselves as a tourist destination is a further aspect of our activity at Cruise Shipping in Miami”, he added. Working alongside regional tourism officials, Kiel has put together a list of Schleswig-Holstein’s tourist highlights which will be presented to shipping companies in Miami.

Kiel is currently the third largest cruise shipping turnaround port in northern Europe. From Kiel attractive routes take travellers to the Baltic’s biggest cities, along the Norwegian fiords as well as to the North Cape and England. Last year more than 375,000 cruise ship passengers were recorded in Kiel, which is also a port of call for important ferry lines from Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Every year two million ferry and cruise ship passengers board or disembark in the port. Currently Kiel has three passenger terminals available - at the Ostseekai, Norwegenkai and Schwedenkai - and all are very close to the city centre

PORT OF KIEL at Cruise Shipping Miami from March 12th to March 15th. German Pavilion, Booth 2269.


Source PORT OF KIEL

Kiel, March 9, 2012: The SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co KG has a new corporate image. The new marketing concept and logo of the PORT OF KIEL will be presented in public for the first time at Cruise Shipping Miami, March 12-15th in the USA. Dr Dirk Claus, Managing Director of the SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co KG said “we have successfully positioned our company on the market over the past few years and our new corporate design will reflect this. Kiel has the most up-to-date terminal facilities in city centre location, places a lot of emphasis on high service quality and offers its customers individual attention. No other port offers such a combination of factors”. This self-awareness will be graphically portrayed in the port’s new logo, consisting of five stylised ships coming together to form a star above the lettering PORT OF KIEL. The image will be embellished by the mission statement “First Trade - First Travel”. Commented Dirk Claus “it is our aspiration to offer all customers a first-class and at the same time a very personal service. This is true not only of freight handling but also in the passenger sector”.

The new marketing image of the PORT OF KIEL is the work of the widely respected Hamburg agency MUTABOR Design, the managing director of which once studied at Kiel’s Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts & Design. “With this new image we want to further raise the level of awareness of the Port of Kiel both at home and especially abroad”. That’s why the cruise shipping trade fair in Miami was chosen for the unveiling of our new marketing image. In future the port will market itself exclusively as the PORT OF KIEL but the German designation SEEHAFEN KIEL, which has been used until now, will be retained in the name of the company. Dirk Claus said “the port is active in an international setting and so it is only logical that the English designation PORT OF KIEL be used in its logo”. The new design will be gradually phased in from this spring so the new logo will soon be on view at all the terminals in Kiel. It is planned to follow that by extending the new marketing image to subsidiary companies.

The PORT OF KIEL is one of the most versatile and economically viable ports in the Baltic region. Its geographic location, deep water for ocean-going ships and direct links to rail and motorway networks make it equally attractive for both cargo handling and passenger traffic. Kiel also benefits from its location at the entrance to the Kiel Canal, the busiest man-made waterway in the world. During the summer season, Kiel is a centre of attraction for cruise ships and among the biggest turnaround ports in northern Europe. Last year two million passengers boarded or disembarked from ships in Kiel while more than six million tons of cargo were also turned round.

The SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co KG operates Kiel’s commercial port on behalf of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital, of which it is a 100% subsidiary. The SEEHAFEN KIEL is responsible for port development as well as for the upgrading and maintenance of facilities. Its other fields of activity are port services and railway and airport operation as well as building and property management.

This press release along with the new logo, photo material and an animated film are available on the Internet at www.portofkiel.com

Source PORT OF KIEL

Interstream Barging will take the first petrol-free LNG Greenstream tanker in use at the end of 2012.

This inland shipping innovation has been developed by Peters Shipyards and was built entirely in the Netherlands. The LNG Greenstream tanker is the first ship to run exclusively on LNG, Liquid Natural Gas, which is converted into electricity for propulsion.

Pieter Peeters, CEO of Interstream Barging, said:

"The LNG Greenstream tanker is a ship entirely driven by electricity and represents an enormous step forward for the inland shipping industry in the fields of sustainability, security and efficiency. It is in fact a completely new look for inland shipping. The joint development of the LNG Greenstream tanker started some two years ago. We wanted to give firm innovative impetus, as there is much at stake. The trend nowadays is to reward cleaner ships for their efforts, as demonstrated for example by the reduction of port fees, giving an important boost to the development of LNG. With the LNG Greenstream tanker we have skipped the 'dual fuel' step for an entirely LNG-electric operated ship.”

Recently the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR) authorised for the first time the exploitation, up to 30 June 2017, of a tanker running solely on LNG - namely the Argonon, owned by Deen Shipping. The CCNR asserts in its recommendation that other inland barges running on LNG will soon become operational. In recent months the CCNR Working Party on Inspection Regulations has carried out a thorough study into the specific risks of LNG as a fuel and into the huge progress that its "clean" technology offers. The CCNR, in close co-operation with shipping businesses, the shipbuilding industry and the classification agencies, has wants to stimulate the development of LNG in inland shipping, but without any negative impact on security and good traffic handling.


Source INE

EBU, ESO and ETF agreed in February on the organisation of working time and provisions on seasonal work in the passenger transport industry. This is a major step forward.

Supported by the European Commission,  the European Barge Union, the European Transport Workers Federation and the European Skippers Organisation have been negotiating to achieve sectoral agreement on the organisation of working time. Social partners felt that  specific working and living conditions in the inland navigation sector required a directive.
The agreement covers both crew members and shipboard personnel,  laying down important minimum rules which apply to all such workers.  

Key elements within the agreement are:

average weekly working time may not exceed 48 hours per week over a 12 month period  
total night working time may not exceed 42 hours per week
the right to at least four weeks’ paid annual leave
paid for annual health checks
the right to at least ten hours’ rest every day (at least six hours must be uninterrupted) and a total of at least 84 hours' rest every week.

The agreement reflects regular working schedules in inland waterway transport and specifies standards for consecutive working and rest days. Where the normal working day is eight hours, daily working time may be longer, and some weekly rest days may be temporarily postponed, provided that the minimum standards set out above are always respected.

The agreement is intended to support the sector in finding and attracting qualified staff. Inland waterway transport offers huge possibilities and challenges and is a major partner in the entire logistic chain.


The social partners are to ask the Commission for its agreement to be made legally binding in the EU.


Source INE

The French city of Marseille is the venue in March for the 6th World Water Forum which, every three years, mobilises and focuses the world’s creativity, innovation and know-how on water.

Stakeholders and experts are brought together to look at today’s local, regional and global challenges – those that cannot be undertaken without the co-operation of all, and a common framework of goals and concrete targets.

The goal is to get water and its vital importance onto the world’s top tables and political agendas. There can be no sustainable development while water issues remain unsolved.


French waterway manager, VNF, will be staging a workshop and debate within the Forum on 13th March that will examine transport by water in the global era, inland waterway transport as a sustainable economic model, and innovation and development in the heart of the inland waterways.


Source INE

Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock is taking part in the largest international trade fair for the cruise shipping industry – the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention – in Miami (USA) from 12 – 15 March. Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft is joined by five other exhibitors at the fair to promote Rostock-Warnemünde as a cruise destination as well as its maritime services industry.

Kloska Group, a ship supplier and service provider, the tour operators VIP Hanse Touring and European-Land-Excursions as well as the shipping agents HC Röver and Sartori & Berger are joining Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft in a mutual presence for the Rostock port.

Under the motto “Destination Germany” five German cruise ports are present at a joint stand of 27 square-meters in the “German Pavilion”. The Rostock port will be joined at this year’s fair by Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Kiel and Lubeck.

After the big success last year the German cruise ports together inviting the international cruise shipping agencies to an evening reception on March 13 .

Approximately 11,000 visitors from within the industry are expected at this year’s fair. Almost 900 exhibitors including more than 150 ports from all over the world will be presenting the latest trends and offerings of the cruise shipping industry.

The Rostock port has been taking part in this cruise shipping convention in Miami since 1994.
With 180 notified calls of 39 cruise vessels, the cruise port of Rostock-Warnemünde is headed for a new record year in the upcoming season.
So Warnemünde is again the most frequented German cruise port this year.

Source Rostock Port

The Norwegian North East Arctic cold water prawn fishery today became the latest northern European fishery to gain certification to the MSC [1]  standard for sustainable fishing. It joins the North East Arctic cod and haddock fisheries, which gained certification last November.  The Norwegian Seafood Council has been the client for all three certifications, and today announce independent verification of another of Norway’s sustainable and well-managed fisheries.

About the Norwegian prawn fishery
The fishery takes place all year around along the Norwegian coastline, up near Svalbard and in the Barents Sea where both small inshore vessels and larger ocean-going vessels catch around 20 000 tonnes annually. The stock is shared with other nations but the Norwegian fleet, which comprises 89 vessels, catches around 30per cent of the total catch. Europe is the main market for Norwegian cold water prawns where both fresh and frozen prawns are sold in Sweden, the UK, Denmark, Finland, Italy and France.

What the Norwegian Seafood Export Council says
Ove Johansen, NSC Marketing Manager for prawn says: “Norway has for years been acknowledged as one of the world’s leading nations in sustainable fisheries management. We are now pleased that MSC certification was obtained for Norwegian prawn fisheries as sustainably harvested. The MSC certification is an important tool in our marketing of Norwegian prawns and will help to strengthen our communication with our main markets.”

What the MSC says
Camiel Derichs, MSC Deputy Director Europe says: “The Norwegian seafood industry is continuing to demonstrate its commitment to sustainable fisheries through this certification to MSC standards of the Barents Sea prawn fisheries. The certifier found during the assessment of the fishery that cold water prawn stock is in excellent shape, that exploitation levels are moderate to low and that the impacts of this fishery on other species and the ecosystem in the Barents Sea are limited. The fishery received three conditions of certification, which are expected to improve long-term management, including the Harvest Control Rule. I congratulate these fisheries on an excellent result and the MSC looks forward to working with our partners in Norway and more widely to help promote MSC certified Norwegian prawns.”

European Seafood Exhibition

During the ESE in Brussels, the certifier DNV and MSC will be presenting the certificate to the representatives of the fisheries and welcome all partners to the MSC booth to jointly celebrate the certification of the Norwegian prawn fishery.

Source MSC

-      Both APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles and APM Terminals Tacoma take home five Pacific Maritime Association Safety Honors


Los Angeles, California, USA – For the fifth consecutive year APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles was named winner of both the Category A Southern California Area Container Terminal Safety Award, and the Coast Award for the safest terminal on the Pacific Coast by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). The awards were announced at the PMA’s 63rd Annual West Coast Safety Southern California Area Award event, held on March 1st in Los Angeles.

On February 29th the PMA held its State of Washington Area Safety Awards, naming APM Terminals Tacoma winner of the Washington area’s Category C Container Terminal Safety Award and the Coast Award for Category C for the safest terminal on the Pacific Coast. APM Terminals Tacoma also won the award for the “Greatest reduction in injury rates for the Washington Area”, irrespective of terminal size.

“We are very proud to have received these safety awards.  The safety of staff and others who visit our facilities is APM Terminals’ highest priority.  It is gratifying that the hard work of our men and women in ensuring the safe operation of our terminals is recognized by our peers in the industry.” said APM Terminals President of the Americas Region, Eric Sisco.

The PMA awards, based on reported injury rates per man-hours worked, are divided by geographic area and by size. Awards are presented for the Southern California ports, and for the Washington and Oregon ports.  Facilities are separated into three categories according to size; Container Terminal Category A are those terminals totaling more than one million man hours worked per year, Category B is for terminals with more than 500 thousand, but less than 1 million man hours worked, and Category C are those terminal operators with less than 500,000 thousand man hours worked per year. Local area awards are presented in each of the terminal categories based on injury rates, and the Coast awards are given in each terminal category for the best safety performance on the entire West Coast.

APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles, the largest container terminal in the United States, handled 1.91 million TEUs in 2011. The Lost-Time Injury Frequency (LTIF) rate at Pier 400 decreased by 22% to 6.01 per million man-hours worked for the year from 2010. On an average day, there are approximately 2,000 longshore workers and others at Pier 400, including 5,300 trucks per day, and 17 doublestack trains per week.

APM Terminals Tacoma, which handled 264,397 TEUs in 2011, improved its LTIF rate by 64% to 8.39 per million man-hours worked for the year.

In January, APM Terminals was presented with The Gerald H. Halpin Safety Excellence Award for 2010-2011 by the Signal Mutual Indemnity Association for safety achievement in its US operations. APM Terminals Pacific, Ltd., which performs stevedoring services at APM Terminals Pier 400 and APM Terminals Tacoma, was also given the Signal Mutual Industry Leader Safety Award for the most improvement of safety performance in terms of declining reported incidents for the past three consecutive years.

Source APM Terminals

Chopin Airport handled over 584,000 travellers in February 2012, a 6.9% increase year-on-year.

Passenger aircraft movements rose by 2.2%, reaching 8,600.

The airport has served 1.19 million passengers since the beginning of the year, 5.9% more than in the first two months of 2011.

Source Warsaw Chopin Airport

MAN Diesel & Turbo has received an order from the US-based cruise liner company Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) for the maintenance of the engines on nine cruise liners. The service agreement runs for four years and is being handled by the MAN PrimeServ service office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Besides the maintenance work it also covers the supply of spare parts. During the term of the agreement, two further Norwegian cruise ships will be put into service which will then also be incorporated into the contract. The order is worth US$ 30 million.

"The order from Norwegian Cruise Line represents a milestone for MAN Diesel & Turbo and for our service brand MAN PrimeServ," says Dr. Stephan Timmermann, the Executive Board Member of MAN Diesel & Turbo responsible for the Engines & Marine Systems and After-Sales Strategic Business Units. "It is one of the first service agreements of its kind with one of our major customers and constitutes a key After-Sales success in a very exciting cruise liner business."

To date, 52 MAN engines with 542 cylinders from various series have been produced for Norwegian Cruise Line's vessels, including the world's first Common Rail large-bore diesel engine in 2007. The company's next ship with MAN engines will be launched in April 2013.

Source MAN SE


The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged US policy makers to improve aviation competitiveness by easing the tax and regulatory burdens on the airline industry.

“Aviation generates up to $1.3 trillion in annual US economic activity and 10.5 million jobs and accounts for up to 5.2% of GDP, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) study. The US has one of the most mobile populations on the planet thanks to commercial aviation. Each and every flight creates jobs, enables commerce and drives connectivity. Policy makers at the state and local level recognize these facts and they work hard to ensure connectivity by attracting air services. But while aviation gets a lot of attention in Washington, it is not always focused on the priority of using aviation as a catalyst for economic activity,” said IATA’s Director General and CEO Tony Tyler in his remarks to the 37th FAA Aviation Forecast Conference.

“If creating jobs and encouraging economic growth is a national policy priority, then the lack of a coordinated national policy on aviation is shocking. A national policy is needed and it must be aligned with the economic needs of communities, states and regions—with the goal of improving the competitiveness of the US aviation industry,” said Tyler.

US airlines have gone through a decade of dramatic restructuring during which the industry has lost more the $62.5 billion, laid off 25% of the workforce and cut domestic departures by 21%. Many local economies have seen the impact of the reduced connectivity and are working hard to provide the conditions to maintain services. But there is a policy disconnect between what is happening locally and the national focus.

“If you want to discourage something, wrap it in a web of restrictive regulations and taxes. Taxes and fees now represent 20% of a US ticket. The Administration’s 2013 budget proposal heaps even more taxes on aviation, with much of the receipts used to balance the budget or reduce the deficit. When Washington does look beyond taxes, the agenda often bogs down on complex problems that defy easy regulatory solutions or commercial matters that should be left to the workings of the free market,” said Tyler.

“Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand is a more reliable guide in commercial areas than the hand of regulators. Unfortunately, we are seeing the US retreat from the free market principles for which it is so well known. This desire to regulate market behavior flies in the face of the US deregulation experience, the undeniable conclusion of which has got to be that the market is ruthless with airlines that fail to meet customer expectations,” said Tyler. This point is illustrated with three recent policy initiatives which seek to micromanage how airlines compete:

  • Requiring airlines to hold all reservations for 24 hours, which ties-up valuable inventory and is being applied extra-territorially to non-US airlines.
  • Requiring airlines to include all fees and taxes in the price of the ticket being advertised, when the same is not required of other travel products such as hotel rooms and cruises. Is the policy imperative to hide the heavy tax burden?
  • Considering forcing airlines to sell all of their products through global distribution systems (GDSs), although with a few keystrokes any consumer has access to every airline’s available fares and attributes in every market.


Addressing the US tarmac delay rule, Tyler said “Nobody wants a delay. For passengers they are a great inconvenience. For airlines, they are a threat to their business. Costs increase when crew and aircraft are out of position. No airline wants to risk disappointing customers who have plenty of airline options. Fines won’t stop bad weather, which is usually the instigating factor in most extended delays. Infrastructure investments, on the other hand, could boost system capacity and efficiency. But policy-makers let the FAA re-authorization process, which included critical funding for the NextGen air traffic management system, run on for four years.”

If regulators really want to reduce delays, Tyler offered two suggestions:

  • Ensure that every dollar paid by airline passengers for customs and immigration services is invested to provide officers and airport facilities commensurate with the rising levels of international travelers visiting the US. This will avoid aircraft sitting fully loaded at the gate for hours for lack of room in the immigration hall to unload passengers.
  • Ensure that revenue that is generated from airport fees and charges is used to improve airport facilities. “Since no airline wants to risk a heavy fine for violating the tarmac rule, carriers are pre-emptively cancelling flights that face a risk of an extended delay. The Government Accountability Office has estimated that the number of flight cancellations increased by more than 5,000 since the rule took effect. Extended delays may have gone away but at a price to the economy,” said Tyler.


Aviation’s economic benefits permeate the economy. Travel and tourism are natural and well-known beneficiaries. Global connectivity provided by aviation impacts almost every business—not just travel and tourism, but health care, automotive and fashion among others. Tyler urged the formation of a broad coalition of the aviation supply chain and all businesses dependent on aviation’s connectivity to deliver a strong message for a policy on aviation that includes reasonable taxation and competitiveness-enabling regulation. “Everybody wins with that…including the national economy,” said Tyler.

Source IATA


MARSEILLES' CMA GGM, the world's third biggest container shipping line after Maersk and MSC, has posted a net loss of US$30 million against a $1.6 billion profit in 2010 despite last year's four per cent revenue increase to $14.87 billion.

Container volume was up 11 per cent against market growth of 6.5 per cent reaching a record high of 10 million TEU.

CMA CGM continued to dispose of non-strategic assets, said the company, further strengthening its balance sheet by issuing $500 million in equity notes to the Yildirim Group and raising $945 million in separate dollar- and euro-denominated bond issues.

Disappointing net results were attributed to overcapacity in the trade and a steep rise oil prices, with bunker costs soaring 34 per cent year on year.

"CMA CGM nevertheless enjoyed a satisfactory operating performance, thanks to its efficient fleet, global network and sustained cost discipline," said a company statement.

"Although the beginning of the year was difficult for the entire industry, freight rates are now trending upwards, especially outbound Asia. Several shippers, including CMA CGM, have announced and are introducing significant rate increases as from March," said the statement.

CMA CGM plans to continue implementing operating partnerships with MSC on the Asia/North Europe and South America lines and with Maersk on the Asia/Mediterranean, Adriatic and Black Sea trades.

The group will also deploy more efficient, modern and cost-effective vessels on every trade and develop more innovative, high-quality information technology services with IBM.

CMA CGM is also pursuing a cost reduction plan, which is expected to deliver $400 million in savings this year. "In the same way, the decline in charter rates will reduce operating costs by $80 million in 2012," the company said.

Thanks to all these measures, the group expects to report a profit in 2012, in a market that is difficult to predict given the scheduled arrival of a large number of new vessels and further increases in bunker costs.

The group said it remains confident in the future of the industry and will strengthen its position in Russia, India, Latin America and Africa, as well as in the reefer market.

Said CEO Rodolphe Saade: "Once again this year, CMA CGM has demonstrated its strong resilience at a time of intense turmoil in our industry. Our operating and financial performances were among the best in the industry. We set up strategic operating partnerships with MSC and with Maersk to address market challenges and maintained our commitment to controlling costs. We expect the market to improve in 2012, particularly in the second half."

Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News

MAERSK Line and the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad (BNSF) have agreed to a 95 per cent on-time delivery scheme called Flagship for US-bound Asian cargo via Los Angeles to Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and as far east as Tennessee and Ohio.

Under the deal, Flagship will provide dedicated, non-stop BNSF rail service that arrives at an agreed time. Affected loops will be the TP5, TP6 and TP8, which will result in major changes to alliance agreements, reports London's Containerisation International. Flagship appears to be the transpacific extension of the "conveyor belt" concept of the shipping line's Daily Maersk Asia-Europe service launched last September.

"By ensuring on-time delivery, Maersk becomes an extension of a customer's production line to increase supply chain efficiencies, improve inventory management, and help move products to market as planned," said a statement from the Danish shipping giant.

"Flagship trains bypass connecting points along the route allowing us to give an unmatched velocity," said Maersk, which also recently announced and extension of its fuel-saving slow steaming programme.

But Maersk spokesman Timothy O'Connell cautioned: "Speed is not the essence of this service - being on-time is. Absolute reliability is not about being faster. It's about being reliable."

Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News

GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd, the world's fourth biggest container shipping line, will levy a US$150 per TEU rate increase on March 15 on all cargo from the Far East (excluding Japan) and Oceania to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Rates on all cargo moving from Japan to the Red Sea will be subject to an increase of $250 per TEU starting April 1. From Japan to Australia, the increase will be $250 per TEU from April 1. Hapag-Lloyd said it would apply an increase of $300 per TEU on cargo from northeast Asia to Australia from April 15.

Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News

STRIKE-PLAGUED Ports of Auckland (PoA) will start sacking 292 striking dockers next week and make new hires, said PoA chief executive Tony Gibson, adding that the fired workers could reapply, but under a new contract.

"This decision has not been made lightly, but we believe it is vital to ensuring a successful and sustainable future for the port," said Mr Gibson.

Said Maritime Union president Garry Parsloe: "We cannot let Ports of Auckland get away with this. It's by no means the end of our campaign. Port management wants to take away job security from 300 ordinary working families."

Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
 

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