Largest shipping company differs from Antwerp to Rotterdam


10:41 On her third day, the pilot for the port strike a dramatic turn. Already Wednesday shows the biggest customer of the port, the MSC decides to have all its vessels to Rotterdam to distract. At the same time announce the independent pilots from Friday .. a sharpening of their actions.


Following consultations Tuesday with the federal government Wednesday with the Flemish government and the prospect that the wire again this afternoon would be recognized at the federal level, it was for the Italian-Swiss company apparently enough. "It's true. We have decided on Wednesday to stop all activities at our terminal," said Managing Director Marc Beerlandt of MSC in our country. "That means unemployment immediately for at least 800 dockers. The consequences are dramatic but this has everything to do with the attitude of the pilots. They now reap what they wanted to achieve."

Jobleverancier
The MSC is not only on her own account for about 60 to 70 percent of the total container throughput in the port. With its home terminal in the Delwaide dock - behind the locks so - it also represents a huge jobleverancier. Weekly walk at least about 70 MSC container ships at the port. About 25 to 40 ships of MSC are currently anchored off the Belgian coast, or were to Antwerp road.

Particularly painful is that MSC diverting to Rotterdam where it gets increasingly facilities.

Business hours
Meanwhile Thursday morning has started shipping a bit because traditional unions of pilots and the rest of the Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services (Speech Services, pilot coordinators, traffic centers, etc) undertook a relaxation. The pilots now formally cease at night and work during office hours from 8 am to 17h. In practice, however, the tide is against because it does not follow the office .... The highest water levels fall today after around 8 in the morning and 21h tonight. According to the Port of Antwerp , there are currently about 55 to 60 ships off the coast.

Sharpen
In a brief statement announced the Association of Pilots meanwhile her actions as of Friday it will sharpen. "The Flemish government refuses to admit anything," said President Sven Deridder. "We are the pillar to sent. Our question is addressed directly to the Flemish government. Tightening means that de facto there will only ship to sea, and not vice versa."

Deridder also recalls that while the Flemish government says nothing to the pension problems to be dealing, the Minister-President Kris Peeters was in 2007 that committed the same pension problem.

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