Ørsted affected by port blockade
An installation vessel to be used on the two Ørsted wind farms Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 1 cannot leave the port of Esbjerg, as a number of dockworkers have been blocking the vessel Seaway Ventus since Friday, according to Danish Offshore Industry - DOI.dk.
The blockade is happening because the seafarers on board are not covered by a collective agreement, which the dockworkers hold Ørsted responsible for.
”It is an old agreement between the dockworkers and the seafarers that there must be a collective agreement on the ships that come here to Esbjerg. That’s the only way work can resume,” says Brian Reichle, who has been warning Ørsted about the lack of a collective agreement for a month, to DOI.dk
(Translated using DeepL with additional editing by Catherine Brett)
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