X-press Container Line

X-Press Feeders joins RCL and KMTC in new Straits service

Singapore-based feeder operator X-Press Feeders is improving its connections between the Straits of Singapore, Vietnam, China and South Korea in collaboration with Regional Container Lines (RCL) and Korea Marine Transport Company (KMTC Line).

Each of the three carriers will deploy an owned ship to a China – Straits – South Korea service, which is being marketed as North China X-Press. SITC Container Lines and Gold Star Line are purchasing slots on the service.

The weekly service loop will be...

https://container-news.com/x-press-feeders-joins-rcl-and-kmtc-in-new-straits-service/

Gold Star opens northern Vietnam-EC India service

Hong Kong-based intra-Asia carrier Gold Star Line (GSL) has become the second carrier to offer direct connections between northern Vietnam and India’s east coast, attracted by rising Indian demand for Vietnam manufactured goods.

GSL’s India-Vietnam Express (IVX) connects the niche port of Chu Lai in central Vietnam, Haiphong in Northern Vietnam, Kattupalli and Chennai on the east coast of India, and Port Klang in Malaysia.

The service, which began with GSL’s chartered vessel, the 1,134TEU Asiatic...

https://container-news.com/gold-star-opens-northern-vietnam-ec-india-service/

Unions appeal against Dutch court’s Docker’s Clause ruling

Trade unions in dispute with a number of feeder operators and ship managers over the implementation of a jointly negotiated collective bargaining agreement (CBA) will appeal the court’s preliminary decision announced on 27 August.

The appeal is due to be heard on 6 October, and is expected to focus on two major issues raised at the earlier hearing. According to the original decision, the reasonableness and fairness of the Unions’ position and the anti-competitive nature of the Non-Seafarers’...

https://container-news.com/unions-appeal-against-dutch-courts-dockers-clause-ruling/

Feeder lines can set aside Dockers’ Clause says Dutch court

A preliminary court hearing in The Netherlands has ruled that the Non-Seafarers’ Work Clause, the so-called Dockers’ Clause of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which came into force on 1 January, should be set aside during the current pandemic.

In a case brought to court by the trade unions in an effort to get seafarer employers to comply with a negotiated CBA, the court felt that there was an issue with the “reasonableness and fairness” of the negotiation of this agreement, according to...

https://container-news.com/feeder-lines-can-set-aside-dockers-clause-says-dutch-court/