Haldia Bulk Terminals sacks remaining 348 employees at Haldia
03 Nov 2012
Haldia Bulk Terminals (HBT), which pulled out from Haldia this week citing political reasons and bias by the Kolkata Port Trust has dumped its remaining workers at the port as well as part of its winding up process.
Haldia Bulk Terminals, promoted by ABG of India and LDA of France, today retrenched 348 more employees, taking the total number of employees sacked to over 600.
"HBT is left with no option but to retrench its 348 employees from today," HBT said in a statement.
Problems started after HBT a berth operator at the Haldia Dock Complex, run by Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), retrenched 275 employees earlier this month stating they were surplus.
KoPT acting chairman Manish Jain, however, said ABG Infralogistics was keen to continue in the Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD) and had made a bid for berth 5 of NSD in the city as Kolkata dock container cargo jumped by 15 per cent this year.
Haldia, however, had witnessed 17 per cent drop in dry bulk cargo in September as against 12 per cent till April-August period 2012.