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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Famous quotes containing the words ports of, ports and/or convenience:
“O polished perturbation! golden care!
That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.”
—Amy Vanderbilt (1908–1974)