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MUMBAI: Union government-controlled Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) will compensate Dubai Ports World if the private container operator faces trouble while operating a new container terminal at the port’s facility in Mumbai.
The compensation could either be in the form providing another location to set up the facility or could even be a financial one, according to officials at the port. The move is currently being discussed by the Ministry of Shipping and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.
Dubai Ports World (DP World), among the largest container terminal operators in the world, emerged winner for developing the port project, but has been unable to sign the concession agreement since then. The signing of the concession agreement has been delayed as the operator does not want to operate in the area allotted to it as it’s marked as a mangrove forest area.
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The Indian Coast Guard coordinated the rescue operation and all the 26 members of the crew— 12 Russians and 14 Filipinos– were rescued. The rescued crew members are being sent to Colombo, they said.
A Singapore-bound merchant vessel from Jeddah split into two around 840 nautical miles off the Indian coast causing oil spill even as all the crew members were rescued, Indian Coast Guard officials said.
‘Mol Comfort’, the 316-m-long vessel was carrying 4,500 containers from Saudi Arabia, they said.
“The vessel hull broke into two off the Mumbai coast and the crew members were rescued from the ship in two life rafts and a life boat,” a Coast Guard official said.
The officials said that the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Mumbai diverted three ships– MV Hanjin Bejing, MV Zim India and MV Yantian Express, which were travelling nearby, for the rescue operation.
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A federal judge has reopened the dispute over which union workers at the Port of Portland should perform the task of plugging and unplugging refrigerated cargo containers.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman ruled Monday that the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., overstepped its authority last August when it awarded the work to union electricians instead of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union.
The Pacific Maritime Association successfully argued the NLRB does not have jurisdiction in a disagreement in which one group of workers is employed by a government agency — the Port of Portland.
Leal Sundet, an ILWU coast committeeman, said in a statement that Mosman’s decision “confirms what the union has been saying all along — that the board’s authority is limited, and that in this case it should have respected our internal dispute resolution process.”
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Judge says NLRB ‘violated clear statutory mandate’ when it intervened in longshore union dispute with ICTSI at the Port of Portland last year
PORTLAND, OR (June 17, 2013) – Today, United States District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman issued an order vacating the National Labor Relations Board’s August 13, 2012 decision in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 48, 358 NLRB No. 102 (IBEW, Local 48) in which the NLRB intervened in a private contractual dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and ICTSI Oregon, Inc. and awarded work to public-sector employees working for the Port of Portland. The order is the result of a lawsuit filed against the NLRB by the Pacific Maritime Association on September 7, 2012. PMA argued in its lawsuit that the NLRB impermissibly denied PMA’s motion to intervene in IBEW, Local 48 and unlawfully expanded its jurisdictional reach to public-sector employees who are expressly excluded from the National Labor Relations Act by Congress.
At the conclusion of the June 4, 2013 hearing that resulted in today’s order, District Court Judge Mosman concluded that the Board had overstepped its reach:
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