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The largest shipping companies announced the termination of cooperation with Russia – the Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company, the Danish Maersk and the French CGM. Maxim Kolyadintsev, chairman of the Russian Union of Dockers, told a Rosbalt correspondent how this will affect sea freight in St. Petersburg.
“Of course, due to the sanctions, the cargo turnover will decrease, but the port will not stop. There is and will be cargo in the port of St. Petersburg, although in a smaller volume, stevedoring companies are working, there is no reason to panic. A wedge of light has not converged on a number of shipping companies, there are a sufficient number of others. We have already gone through all this more than once, when the volume of cargo turnover was reduced due to both sanctions and covid, but the port has been working as it is,” Kolyadintsev noted.
However, according to him, the decrease in volumes will clearly affect the wages of dock workers who are engaged in loading in ports – it directly depends on the cargo turnover.
“It is possible to predict a drop in wages from 30 to 80%, depending on the wage systems. A number of stevedoring companies may be affected to a lesser extent, depending on the range of goods and the countries to which the goods are sent. The approximate number of the main, large stevedoring companies in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, taking into account the ports of Vysotsky and Bronka, is about 5 thousand people, ”the head of the trade union cited the figures.
This number includes about 2,000 workers who perform loading and unloading operations – dockers-machine operators.
“At present, there is no talk of any reductions in any stevedoring company in St. Petersburg and, as far as I know, there are no plans in the near future either. On the contrary, there is a shortage of qualified dockworkers in the port, so it would be simply silly to panic now and start layoffs. Where then to get specialists? asked Maxim Kolyadintsev.
Earlier, Rosbalt wrote that hundreds of freight cars from Russia were stopped in Finland.
Source: Rosbalt
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