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Parliament, the Council and the Commission continue in and confirm their desire to liberalise port services. The small amount of progress that has been made, such as deleting pilotage services from the directive, does not reverse the process that is underway and we fear that pilotage services will only enjoy short-term respite. If liberalisation – a synonym for abandoning public service missions, combined with social regression for workers and serious violations of environmental and safety standards – is to fail, workers and users of port services must be rallied on a large scale.
The dock workers threatened by self-handling, in other words by the possibility for shipowners and charterers to use their own staff to load and unload their ships, have led the way by organising several European strikes and demonstrating in their thousands in front of the European institutions. We supported and still support their action. That is why we have voted to reject the directive. It will lead to environmental, social and human tragedies, just like the liberalisation of the rail sector. These disasters will no longer take place along our coasts, like the
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shipwrecks, but within the ports. In order to combat liberalisation, we must promote a public port service that is coordinated at European level and guarantees the highest possible levels of safety and social standards."@en1
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