In the port of Rotterdam they are under consideration measures in order to avoid esuberi determined from an increase of the traffic of the inferior container to the waits



Tuesdays to Rotterdam the representatives of the Harbour Authority, the entrepreneurs and the harbour workers have met in order to face the problem of the previewed excess of labor in the segment of the container that will happen when the terminals of the new great harbour area Maasvlakte 2 enter totally in activity, problem that - second estimated how much - will not be set before 2017. The construction of the new terminalistica area is started in 2008 and the first operating activities have entered in exercise officially this year with the inauguration to April of the new container terminal managed from the APM Terminals ( on 27 April 2015),

In sight of the entrance in activity of the container terminal to the Maasvlakte 2 unions FNV and CNV had manifested worry on the consequences for the occupation as the trend of increase of the traffic of the container enlivened from the Dutch port has been revealed meaningfully less supported regarding that previewed when it had been decided to construct the new harbour area. The forecasts now indicate the possible reduction of a number of places of work pairs at least 200 not advanced units and to 800.

In occasion of the tuesday encounter unions they have restated that no harbour worker will have to be fired, but also have evidenced that currently there is a deficiency of harbour workers rather than a surplus, and this places problems regarding the assumptions since, for example, the enterprises could resort to the exclusive one use of the forward contracts.

In the next few months the parts, reunited in a working group constituted from the representatives of the enterprises and the workers, will work to the definition of measures in order to avoid the esuberi, enclosed the possibility for staff to work in part time during the last few years of activity before reaching the pensionabile age 65-year-old, or the possibility to carry out exchanges of staff between the enterprises or still to use the staff for the transport of the container between the terminals of the harbour area Maasvlakte 1 and those of the area Maasvlakte 2. A new encounter is in program for the next 1° November.

While the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has announced that the parts will continue to use a dynamic mathematical model elaborated from the Berenschot Dutch in order to have clearly of a picture of current the occupational situation, of the effect and market trends of the possible solutions to adopt for the occupation.

Some day before the tuesday reunion, to the city council member to the Job and the Economy of the Municipality of Rotterdam, Martin Struijvenberg, was delivered a study on the perspectives of the occupation in the port of Rotterdam that Deltalinqs, the association of the harbour and industrial enterprises of the port of Rotterdam, the Municipality and the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam had commissioned to the Seor, the independent research center of the University Erasmus di Rotterdam. The search emphasizes that every year will be the occupied necessity of 2.400 new ones for the technical and logistic functions.

While Deltalinqs and other entrepreneurial associations TLN /FENEX and AIP, have manifested disappointment because, to light of the results of a search of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Atmosphere that he has evidenced as the costs for the execution of the inspections and the controls of the Marine Health in the Netherlands are clearly advanced to those anyway of north-western Europe, the Dutch government has expressed the intention not to assume some provision supporting that these greater costs would be compensated by smaller costs in other segments of the logistic chain. The entrepreneurial associations have emphasized that the investigation reveals that the controls that the Nederlandse Voedsel en Warenautoriteit (NVWA), the Dutch authority for alimentary safety, carries out in the port of Rotterdam is very more expensive than those, for example, turns in the port of Antwerp, with a difference that are comprised between 45% and 72% in more. The associations have observed that the high level of the costs in Holland is imputable to the decision assumed last year from the government to entrust the activities of control and inspection to the private ones.