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"en.20030311.5.2-096"2
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Having opened maritime transport to ultra-liberal competition, with its known consequences: polluted beaches, French fishermen killed by a Norwegian tanker carrying chemicals, piloted by Sri Lankans, the European Commission is now going to deliver port services, from pilotage to dock work, into the hands of private services, in the name of competition between ports, competitiveness and cost reduction, as in the case of the air and rail sectors.
The opening of the market, which will apparently be limited to large ports, although we do not know whether that means those handling 3 million tonnes of freight or those handling 45 million, will, for example, include ‘self-handling’. In other words the ship’s crew, who I imagine will be underpaid workers from South-East Asia, a reservoir of new slaves to world capitalism at the service of social dumping, will be able to carry out dock work, all under a flag of convenience.
The debate is limited to ascertaining whether concerns for safety will make it possible to exclude pilotage and towage from port ‘privatisation’.
That said, our dock workers in Marseilles, Sète and other large ports will be handed over to the pirates of ultra-liberalism. The destruction of port employment will be added to the destruction of fisheries employment. The rebellion and despair of these men in the face of a directive produced by the hawks of economic globalisation is understandable."@en1
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