Ports of Convenience
In 2006, the ITF coined a new term, 'ports of convenience', after approval by dock workers' unions at the ITF's 41st Conference in Durban. The term explicitly refers to port companies that operate like flags of convenience.
On 9 March 2012, ITF president Paddy Crumlin declared Ports of Auckland the world's first port-of-convenience, after it made nearly 300 striking dock workers redundant and contracting out the work.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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