SHIPPING COMPANIES’ LIFELINE TO MYANMAR JUNTA DEMONSTRATES DISDAIN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Unions slam shipping giants for sustaining regime, including Maersk’s hollow claim of performing ‘heightened human rights due diligence’
The companies, Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A (MSC) and CMA CGM – all of which have annual revenues in the tens of billions in USD – are playing a key role in sustaining the ruling military junta in Myanmar.
“The military junta of Myanmar is surviving from international trade - done with violations of workers’ rights, human rights, bombings of its own populations,” said Maung Maung, General Secretary of the Confederation of Trade Unions, Myanmar (CTUM), an affiliate of the International Trade Union Confederation.
In his message to the shipping companies, Maung Maung said: “All the containers your ships carry are owned by the cronies of the military, as they are the only people who can work in Myanmar now. All the fuel you load on your ships in Myanmar are sold by those who are on the UK or US sanctions lists.
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