The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.22 - Service activities incidental to water transportation
110 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
2 January 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The Dutch temporary work agency Rotterdam Port Services exclusively employing dock workers has gone bankrupt, leaving the 110 employees jobless. The company has suffered from the high degree of automation in the Rotterdam port area, the more efficient use by hiring companies of their own personnel, as well as the high average age of its workforce and high incidence of absence due to sickness.
Sources
3 January 2017: transport-online.nl
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Rotterdam Port Services, Bankruptcy in Netherlands, factsheet number 90017, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90017.
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