Cargo clearance fees capped after port workers strike
Despite threats, dockworkers at the Malé commercial harbour continued to charge higher fees to clear out cargo at night after a ban on day-time delivery of goods came into force this week.
04 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
The government on Wednesday capped rates for cargo clearance at the Malé port after dockworkers demanded higher pay to work night shifts.
The limits were imposed as a “sustainable solution” for controlling market prices after new rules banning daytime delivery of goods in the congested capital came into force on April 1, the economic development ministry announced, invoking powers under the 1996 consumer protection law.
The new rates were set a day after the economic minister told the press that the transport rules will not be allowed to become “a license to increase prices”.
“If dockworkers increase fees the government will intervene and open up that service,” Mohamed Saeed warned when asked about workers at the commercial harbour doubling their fees after ending a short-lived strike.
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