Trend for vertical integration may not be right for multimodal transport
Carriers and shippers with ambitions to be integrators looking to “take the forwarder out” of ...
UK transport union RMT has called on the government to take control of P&O Ferries and reinstate 800 sacked crew members, as their replacements refuse to take a pay cut and sign new inferior contracts.
The RMT said it would maintain the pressure on Dubai-owned P&O Ferries after it said the company was forced into an embarrassing U-turn when agency staff refused to accept low rates of pay.
However, the union believes: “The only way out of this latest crisis at the ...
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