News
- CIFFA Ocean Updates
- 11/12/2009
Port Metro Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Games
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will take place in Vancouver and Whistler from February 12 to March 21, 2010. Standard operating procedures will be in place during Games time. Hosting the Games will necessitate some change to the normal operations of Port Metro Vancouver. PMV is providing information that aims to advise port users of these changes, particularly access and security controls, cargo restrictions and traffic management. The latest update is on the website at: http://portmetrovancouver.com/2010.aspx
Greek Court Outlaws Piraeus Strike
JOC Online reports that dockworkers at Piraeus, Greece's largest port, suspended a six-week-old strike campaign November 11 after a local court ruled illegal the action to protest the concession of container facilities to China's Cosco Pacific. A judge in Piraeus said Tuesday the rolling strikes that 1,500 dockworkers began in early October were "illegal and excessive" as jobs are not at risk. The court has banned further strikes over the Cosco deal and threatened daily fines of $6,000 if dockworkers walk out again...The union's decision to end the stoppage, which has stranded thousands of containers, was also said to have been prompted by a pledge by the newly appointed chief executive of the Piraeus port authority to start negotiations with Cosco to safeguard jobs. The government said it can't scrap a legal contract between the previous conservative administration and Cosco, which paid around $5 billion for the 35-year concession to operate two of the three container quays at Greece's biggest port.