Staff stir at port continues

KOCHI: Protest action by employees of Cochin Port Trust under the aegis of CITU, INTUC and BMS pressing for implementation of the revised wages settlement and to stop the privatisation of workshop and dredging operations entered the 45 {+t} {+h} day on Wednesday.

The �Satyagraha protest is also to press the trade unions demand that the Cochin Port Trust should buy its own dredger.

One another demand raised by the unions is that the Port Trust should take over the container handling terminal.