The second recommendation is that there should be negotiations about the vexed problem of the stuffing and stripping of containers and working in groupage depôts.
The authority also had a function for cargo handling, storage and, now, groupage, which is not the same.
But some container groupage work is still being done, sometimes close to the ports, under bad conditions.
The other main area where delays have occurred has been in groupage containers.
That is for a groupage depot.
Where groupage is performed near the ports, the conditions under which it is done, and the recruiting policy, are usually settled by agreement with the relevant trades unions.
I want to refer here particularly to the second of the third main recommendation of the committee, the recommendation on container groupage work, on page 7 of the report.
But if by other workers then only under proper conditions of work, and all undertakings which handle groupage containers should satisfy themselves that these requirements have been met.
