News / Ivory coast dockers suspend strike in favour of negotiations

Striking Ivory Coast dockers in the country’s two major ports of Abidjan and San Pedro have suspended industrial action after the government agreed to negotiate a settlement to the dispute.

Both the ports were blocked from 17 to 20 December, with up to 600,000 tonnes of cocoa beans anticipated to be handled at the gateways by mid-January, with vessels already at berths loading cargo, subsequently becoming trapped by the strike action.

However, Reuters reports that workers and their representative, the union FNADCI, ...