Shipping war causes waves in Estonia

  • 1999-01-07
  • Denise Albrighton
TALLINN - A major storm has been brewing over the Baltic Sea, but it is a dispute between the Estonian and Finnish shipping industries rather than the weather that is making the waves. On Jan. 4 the Estonian government stepped in to the conflict which first flared up in early December, when dockers in Finland refused to load or unload two of the Estonian Shipping Company's vessels, the Rakvere and Calibur, which sail regularly on the Helsinki-Muuga-Aarhus route. Three days later, Danish dockers joined the boycott and refused to handle cargo from the two ships in the Port of Aarhus in Denmar...
 
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