A labor dispute at APM Terminals in Rotterdam that has disrupted shipping at one of Europe’s largest container handling facilities for more than a week shows no sign of an early end.
APM, a unit of Denmark’s A.P Moller-Maersk, offered a 5.5 percent wage increase over two years coupled with a jobs guarantee through 2015. But it has rejected union demands for the new contract to include compensation for workers affected by government pension reforms extending the national retirement age from 65 to 67.