物流巴巴网据shippingwatch报道，瑞典哥德堡港APM码头运营商和码头工人间的冲突越来越严重，存在罢工的风险！
在一份APM码头发给客户的新闻稿中写道：“今年5月19日-6月30日期间，码头工人可能会举行罢工，码头的部分操作也会因此停摆。”
APM码头的CEO Henrik Kristensen说到：“在过去的一年里，我们已经尽了一切努力来解决与码头工人联盟间的冲突，同时也在努力履行对客户的义务。”
“但情况在不断的恶化，为了保障码头的运作，APM码头正在制定一些防护措施，以应对可能到来的一系列工业行动。”
瑞典的码头工人们反对APM码头在正常的营业时间外使用小时工。
据APM的管理人员说，一系列的罢工行动，已经使得码头在过去6个月的货量下降了20%，相当于每周减少2000TEU的货量。
APM的管理人员表示：“正常情况下，码头每周处理多达10000个集装箱，而这占据了整个瑞典出口和进口集装箱的50%”
除了港口运营商，码头的主要客户们也对码头和工人间不间断的冲突感到越来越厌烦。瑞典的纸张和木浆制造商Store Enso正考虑离开APM码头如果冲突还不能解决的话。
根据瑞典媒体Sjöfartstidningen报道，Store Enso写了一封信给瑞典的基础设施部长Anna Johansson，请求瑞典政府介入，尽快解决这一问题。
“如果问题不尽快得到解决，哥德堡港将有失去北欧交通枢纽港地位的风险，一些船公司的船舶可能会不再挂靠哥德堡港，这将对瑞典的制造业造成深远影响。”信中写道。
APM码头运营商同样希望政府可以介入他们与码头工人的冲突中，使问题得到尽快的解决。
原文如下：APM Terminals heralds lockout in Gothenburg
The conflict between APM Terminals and dockworkers in the Port of Gothenburg is growing even more tense.
In a press release issued to APM Terminal's customers Wednesday morning CET,the terminal operator writes that it will impose a partial lockout from May 19 to June 30 this year in response to the various strikes and blocks carried out by dockworkers.
"We have done everything in the last year to solve the conflict with the Swedish Dockworkers'Union,section 4,while making every effort to continue to meet our obligations towards our customers and owners,"says Henrik Kristensen,CEO of APM Terminals Gothenburg,adding:
"The steady deterioration in the situation cannot go on,and in order to protect the business,APM Terminals Gothenburg is taking protective action against the latest series of planned industrial action."
Heralds blocks
The announcement of a lockout arrives after Hamn4n,which is union Svenska Hamnarbetarförbundet's 4th division in Gothenburg,heralded four different new measures against APM Terminals.These include a block of APM Terminals if the terminal company uses hourly staff outside of regular business hours.
Management at APM Terminals explains that the company is taking a stand now because it has lost approximately 20 percent of the terminal's usual capacity over the past six months.This corresponds to around 2,000 teu of freight which the terminal has thus lost weekly.
Understand the gridlocked conflict in the Port of Gothenburg
"The terminal normally handles up to 10,000 containers per week,which represents approximately 50 percent of Sweden's total container imports and exports volumes,"writes APM Terminals,which won the concession for the container port in Gothenburg in 2012.
Customers opt out
The terminal company is not only growing weary of the conflict which dates back over several years of disputes between port workers and the port's management.A major customer as well,Swedish paper and wood pulp manufacturer Store Enso considers leaving the port if the conflict is not resolved.
According to Swedish newspaper Sjöfartstidningen,Store Enso sent a letter to the Swedish minister for infrastructure Anna Johansson and pleaded for the Swedish government to enter the conflict and find a solution.
"If resolution is not found soon,there's a risk that the Nordic traffic hub will lose ship traffic from some of the world's largest carriers with transports to regions including Asia.This situation could have far-reaching consequences for Swedish manufacturing,"reads the letter.
APM Terminals also encourages the Swedish government to enter the conflict in Wednesday's letter.If this were to happen,it would challenge the entire Swedish system's function and form,as ShippingWatch has previously described.
The conflict has previously been presented at the Swedish settlement institute,where it has been dropped on several occassions.Associate professor in corporate finance at Skövde University in Sweden,Christer Thörnqvist,has told ShippingWatch previously that he thinks the settlement institute could solve the conflict between APM Terminals and the dockworkers but that this could take a long time.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the conflict is still in process a year from now,"he told ShippingWatch in February.
