Complaints relating conditions of employment continue to make up the majority (54 per cent) of the Maritime Labour Convention complaints reported to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority last year, AMSA […]
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The port of Montreal appears to be on course for another flare-up in the confrontation between management and labour.
The past few days have seen an escalation in the conflict, increasing shipper fears of another crippling slowdown in operations.
Tension was already building when the seven-month truce, after last summer’s strike, ended in late March, with both sides accusing each other of negotiating in bad faith.
And in a vote a week before …
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Shippers are beginning to make alternative routing arrangements in the event of a renewed strike at the port of Montreal.
And industry groups are warning that a new round of industrial action would seriously hurt supply chains and the Canadian economy.
Stakeholders are worried that a strike at the port could come as soon as late next month, when a truce between Maritime Employers Association and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, …
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Channel ports chaos looks set to worsen next week with French strike action expected from on an ongoing stand-off between government and labour.
Logistics UK tweeted it had been made aware of a “threat of a French national strike” that would impact Channel ports, with union CGT confirming to The Loadstar that action would be occurring on Thursday.
CGT said it was part of a general strike being coordinated with several other unions.
A …
RMT registers support for Coastguard Agency’s detention of ship for exploitation of crew, reads a press release from RMT.
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The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has suspended all industrial action at Patrick Terminals, without a pay deal.
However, the build-up of 100,000 containers at four ports could still take up to three months to clear, and with no new labour agreement reached, there’s no guarantee work stoppages won’t resume as peak season gets under way.
The movbe follows a two-day hearing at the Fair Work Commission (FWC), after Patrick filed an …
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Patrick has applied to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to end protected industrial action across its container terminals, as Cosco becomes the latest shipping line to suspend bookings to Australia.
Patrick’s application follows a potential new workplace agreement between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and rival operator DP World, announced on Friday after nearly two years of negotiations.
The breakthrough came after DPW lodged its own FWC application for termination of …
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Shipping companies have blasted a new round of industrial action set for Brisbane on Sunday, warning of huge costs to importers and “crisis levels” of empty containers.
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has declared protected industrial action for 24 hours at the DP World Terminal, according to liner lobby group Shipping Australia.
The group said the action, which saw at least two ships delayed recently, was causing huge costs and disruption …
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Covid-19 might have put businesses’ environmental concerns on the back burner, temporarily, but the issue is not going away – and increasing numbers of shippers are asking their forwarders for help.
“Businesses have a lot to focus on right now,” said Frank Clary, vice president sustainability for Agility. “But coming out of Covid, none of these issues will have gone away.”
The good news is that cutting emissions often goes hand in hand …
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Disruption at Canada’s port of Montreal has stretched into a fifth day – as longshoremen ended a four-day industrial action yesterday, port checkers launched a one-day strike this morning.
The timing of the actions was designed to create maximum impact, said one forwarder.
By Thursday afternoon, the longshoremen’s strike had affected about a dozen vessels at the port.
“It is certain that the situation is creating undesirable delays for some carriers, as well …
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