Workers Put The Port Of Hamburg Lahm

Nothing was more: In the port of Hamburg today, all cranes stood still. Ships waited in vain to be loaded and unloaded to be, because more than 2000 employees of state port company against a partial privatization protested.
Hamburg - The envelope in the port of Hamburg for one day by workers' protests largely come to a standstill. At the container terminals and other port facilities in the state company HHLA was nothing more today, because more than 2000 people at a Protestzug made to the company headquarters. A company spokesman confirmed that 6 to 15 clock was not working. "There are some delays and delays, but we will in the coming days to process"; HHLA said the spokesman. The company handles about two-thirds of the total Containerumschlages in Hamburg, the port achtgrßten the world.
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protest at the port of Hamburg: Nine hours everything was still Background of the protests are privatisation plans of the Hamburg Senate for the state HHLA. "The mood is very irritated. Colleagues are afraid for their jobs. And they will not give up a fight," said the chairman of the HHLA works council, Arno Muenster. In the resistance against the privatization agree with it "nothing more". The Senate wants to 49.9 percent of the shares sold to investors. According to the Economic Authority, several interested reported in 2007 are concrete offers.
The city wants to get investors, to companies money for upcoming investment of 1.2 billion euros. The HHLA plans more than a doubling of the envelope from the current eight million containers per year to 18 million in 2015. This requires that large-scale installations in expanded. For some years the booming port, shipping benefited from the strong global economy and hence the high exports from Germany. Hamburg faces the financing overwhelmed The city of Hamburg is to have not been able to simultaneously HHLA investment and expansion as the roads and rails in the port to pay. According to Economic Affairs Senator Gunnar Uldall (CDU) will be voting for the expansion of transport infrastructure, a three-million amount. That would overtax HHLA and city. A company spokesman said, however, the company could at least until 2011 the planned investments on their own pay. The company's management is loud speakers for an IPO of voting preferred shares. This could be the city retain complete control. The opposition SPD and the unions reject the partial privatization. At the end of 2005 wanted to train in HHLA well as the corporate headquarters move to Hamburg. Such plans were approved by the federal government stopped.
last had a strike in January in the port of Hamburg. At that time, the port employees protested against a new EU directive, the validity of port licences time limit and reduce the port dues. Previously, there had been recent port strike in Hamburg in 1978, when the workers demanded more money. KAZ / AP / dpa