Belgian Schelde Pilots on Strike

[Oldwood]

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/vrtnieuws.net/nieuws/binnenland/070826_Loodsen

[Andrew McAlpine]

Plenty of ships to spot in Antwerp today then!!  :lol:

rgds
 :-D

[Nathan]

That site you link to dont work.
I must admit, the shipping companys wont be very happy, costing them alot of

[Marie-Anne]

I have been shipspotting in Antwerp the last weekend.
Because of the strike there where hardly any ships around. Pilots work only for a few hours. At flushing there are an awfull lot of ships waiting (about 40) to get in to the ports of Gent and Antwerp.
Some ships try to go to Rotterdam. But most of them still wait untill they can go on.

The companies in Antwerp have a lot of trouble over this.
And for shipspotting it is a pitty as well. We had great weather this weekend, but no ships. So the next few days we have to wait and see how and when they are getting back to work again.
At this moment the stike is nog over yet!!!

Greetz,
Marie-Anne

[CedricH]

Hi,

the pilots and the Flemish government agreed that the pilots would get more people and new software on board to make their job easier.
Immedialtely after the agreement was signed the pilots went to work again and they cleared the queues in the night

Regards
Cedric