Stevedoring

This comes after Port Moresby port workers went on strike calling for the government to re look at the tender process of awarding stevedoring businesses in two of the nation’s busiest ports.

PNG Ports maintains that all avenues of negotiations with Steamships and its landowner partners to accommodate their interests have not been exhausted.

Consultations and negotiations will start late this month with a view towards structuring “a mutually beneficial outcome’’.

Armed with banners of stop work, the workers lead by the Maritime Union President Alex Rawali turned up  at the Port Moresby wharf gate this morning to show their intention.     

Their disagreement is similar to their striking counterparts in Lae, Morobe Province where they want PNG Port and the Government to relook at the tender process of awarding stevedoring businesses in two of the nation’s busiest ports.   

After the ending of the tender process four international companies have been shortlisted for the process.