The Harbour Authority of Rotterdam juts complaint against ECT



The Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has denounced a terminalista society that work in the Dutch port. Draft none other than of the ECT (Europe Terminals Container), company of the group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) of Hong Kong, than in the first European port of call manages the three container terminal Delta Terminal, Euromax Terminal and City Terminal and that it has primed the legal dispute having had in order before which cited the harbour agency.

The Harbour Authority in fact has remembered that ECT has denounced to have received from the agency an unjust treatment favoring other terminalisti, in particular in occasion of the allocation of the first terminal of the new harbour area Maasvlakte 2, and imposing to limiting ECT operating conditions more and rigid regarding those practiced regarding other societies. Which compensation ECT has demanded a sum very 900 million euros.

Specifying to always have operated intensely in order to be on good terms with all its customers and that own task is that in the long term to guarantee the development of the harbour and industrial complex in the interest of the Dutch economy, the Harbour Authority have explained of being however forced to boldness the ways lawyers in order to publicly answer to the repeated critics turned from ECT regarding the procedures and of the provisions put in existence from the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

The Harbour Authority however has rimarcato not to be at all worried for the outcome of this cause and that its advisers lawyers are sure that, in the years, the agency has always operated correctly regarding ECT. Moreover the harbour authority has remembered that own responsibility is that to guarantee that is sufficient ability in port for the activity of handling and transfer of the container and that, in carrying out this task, must look to the question of the market.

"The Harbour Authority - it has emphasized the agency - is contrary to the control of the market: the Harbour Authority does not want and it cannot safeguard companies regarding the forces of the market. As subsidiary of Hutchison, a total terminal operator that competes all over the world - has found Port Authority - ECT is very conscious of the way in which the market work. The same one is worth for Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) (the consortium constituted from the terminalista group DP World and the shipowning companies APL, MOL, HMM and CMA CGM, ndr) and for APM Terminals, and all the companies at home and abroad of the port".

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has specified that the complaint which jutted regarding ECT will come rigorously held separated from all the other areas of competence of the agency, and will come therefore entrusted to the lawyers so that make its course, with the objective that the judicial action does not interfere with the development of the field container and the port.

The Harbour Authority has concluded emphasizing to work with ECT in all the areas with the scope well to return the port and the logistic processes still more efficient and has wished that this legal dispute not ports to some slow down of the progresses in existence in these fields.