The Water Transport Workers Federation of India has urged the Shipping Ministry and the port managements to review and reconsider all the Build – Operate – Transfer (BOT)/ Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT)/Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects already awarded at major ports.Most of these projects are violating their agreed revenue share to the ports and, thereby, reflecting on the ports a huge loss of income, Mr. T. Narendra Rao, General Secretary of the Federation, alleged in a statement issued here.
On the present situation in Haldia Port, he said workers have made an appeal to the port management to speed up the process of mechanizing all the berths in the Haldia Dock Complex so as to make the ports operational and economically viable.
According to Mr. Rao, the affiliated unions of the Federation have also observed ‘Demands Day’ at all the major ports in the country demanding early wage settlement for the port and dock workers in the next meeting to be held at New Mangalore Port on Jan. 4 and 5.
The Indian Ports Association (IPA) and five federations had already arrived at a settlement in this regard in September 2009.
The workers also reiterated their earlier stand that the productivity-linked reward (bonus) to the port and dock workers would be acceptable at the national level not on the basis of individual port performance as suggested by the Ministry of Shipping.
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