Otago Port Dispute: Causing Costly Delays For Transport Companies
October 14th, 2009
Truck companies are urging Port Otago management and workers to settle an industrial dispute over new staffing levels, because the dispute is causing delays in the collection of containers increasing costs and cutting productivity. Transport operators’ attitude to the dispute has hardened after the container terminal was closed for 16 hours from 3pm last Friday in the expectation of a repeat of the “go-slow” by workers the previous week. Northern Southland Transport container supervisor Paul Tobin says the industrial action is proving costly, with four company trucks waiting seven hours to collect containers last Friday in addition to which extra storage charges were also imposed amounting to $50 per container per day. The port company gives transport operators four days to move containers before charging them the extra charge.
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This has rankled with transport companies as Tobin says after the previous Friday’s delays, the port was closed from 1pm on Saturday, before being reopened on Monday hindering access. The port company is defending imposing the storage charges saying they were still imposed because two working days were still available to clear containers after the industrial action. Tulloch Transport container co-ordinator Tony Melrose is urging port workers to stop industrial action. “Something needs to get sorted so we can all move on.”
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