By Justin Stares, editor, The Maritime Watch.

"I’m very afraid of the unions", said the Antwerp port chairman, widening his eyes with earnestness as he pronounced the word “afraid”. In Brazil, I had heard stories of killers contracted by unions to take out troublesome port bosses. But such...

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