News / Under-pressure German ports brace for more strikes as pay talks fail

Shipping lines serving North Europe’s third-biggest container port, Hamburg, are bracing for further industrial action after wage talks were aborted at the weekend.

Negotiations between German port employers and dockworkers trade union ver.di ended without a result on Saturday after 10 hours. The union described a revised offer from the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS) as “inadequate”.

“This offer is far below the real wage protection demanded by ver.di, in view of the current rate of price increase of 7.9%, and ...