Port strike called off

Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) workers on Thursday called off a planned strike for Friday to protest against a deal signed in 2012 by the previous administration giving a private contractor the right to towing and navigating at Vassilikos.

In a unanimous decision taken by trade union representatives following a three-hour meeting with port authority management an agreement was reached for the gradual transition of the towing and navigating rights at Vasilikos to be returned to the ports authority.

“This is a positive outcome following the reassurances we received from the CPA chief,” SEK’s port authority union representative Pantelis Stavrou told the Cyprus Mail.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.