194553 Resource 165490 94146 94146 1200085772754 1201207657038 Controlled Dockworkers in Greece strike over privatization

Dockworkers are fighting privatization of the terminal.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><font color="#000000">Dockworkers at the <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">port</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Piraeus</placename></place> held a strike on Friday and plan on striking next Tuesday and Wednesday due to the Greek government looking into privatizing of the container terminal facilities.<span>&nbsp;</span><city w:st="on">Piraeus</city> is the larges port for commercial traffic in the Mediterranean and one of the 10 largest ports in <place w:st="on">Europe</place>.<span>&nbsp;</span>The government looked into privatizing in 2006, but stopped the process due to riots.<span>&nbsp;</span>They hope that the bidding process will be completed by June.<span>&nbsp;</span></font><p /></span></p> 10 application/xml false Container Terminal Greece strike Piraeus Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165490 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web