	rotterdam port subsidy to end july minister dutch social affairs minister louw de graaf announced he is withdrawing the annual mln guilder labour subsidy for rotterdam s strike hit general cargo sector as from july late last month de graaf said that if the dispute was not settled by monday this week he would withdraw the subsidy the chairman of the port employers organization svz jacques schoufour said he was unhappy with the decision and added there was now no alternative to proceeding with redundancy plans the series of strikes in the sector started on january in protest at employers plans to make redundancies from the strong workforce by starting with this year meanwhile the port and transport union fnv attacked loss figures given for the port for this year the figures issued by accountants on behalf of the svz put total losses for last year at mln guilders and in at mln earlier the employers had put the figure at around mln the fnv said the actual losses were nearer to mln and said the employers had inflated the figures as part of their plan to restructure completely the port s general cargo sector reuter 
