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"Mr President, as a former member of the Amsterdam City Council Port Committee and as a current inhabitant of Rotterdam, I know what is wrong with competition, expansion and labour relations in ports. The ports along the coast between Hamburg and Le Havre, spanning Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, largely service the same
. They have traditionally competed with each other with low tariffs and large public investments to secure the highest possible cargo levels for their quays. This competition involves taxpayers’ money, and there is unnecessary secrecy about the use of taxpayers’ money. An orderly and scheduled distribution of tasks among those ports saves public funding and better provides the port workers with sustainable employment without the unnecessary peaks and troughs. That is why I support the remarkable agreement between a large contingent to the Left and rapporteur Jarzembowski, which reminds us of the position which this Parliament has adopted once before, namely the position that transparent competition among ports is far more useful than organising competition in the ports. Competing pilotage and towage services are at the expense of safety, working conditions and job security. That is why we need to avoid the wrong interventionist measures from the powers that be."@en1
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