Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-11-Speech-2-097"
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"en.20030311.5.2-097"2
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"The ports between Hamburg in Germany and Le Havre in France, and all the Dutch and Belgian ports in-between, see the most competition of all ports. This is because together they serve largely the same extensive hinterland, including the German Ruhr district, through which flows of cargo can constantly move from one port to another. As a result, the transhipment costs per quantity of cargo are already lower in these ports than in America or East Asia. The effects of a ports directive, which aims to encourage competition in order to drive down the price of port activity, are the most far-reaching in precisely those ports. They cannot operate at still lower costs, and yet they are forced to do just that. In ports such as these, the risk of social dumping and deteriorating safety is much greater than where one port has a virtual monopoly over a smaller hinterland. The port or port town that has the strictest requirements regarding safety, environment, quality of work and working conditions loses the competition, and the worst port is the winner. Furthermore, the directive will force EU Member States to act contrary to obligations they have entered into within the framework of the ILO Convention. Opting for self-handling at second reading and declaring that votes on the obligations under the ILO Convention are not in order throws up conflicts for the third reading, and, after that, legal proceedings and strikes."@en1
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