Port strikers ordered back

A court in Rotterdam on Saturday ordered striking workers at Rotterdam ports services group Smit to go back to work. The injunction was called for by a number of petrochemical refinery firms whose ships were caught up in the strike.


The court ordered the towage workers to return to work for four days after every five days on strike in order to clear the backlog of work.

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