Lastly, such liberalisation poses a threat to employment, because opening up port services to competition, in particular those employing the most staff, such as freight handling, carries the risk of plunging the European ports into a dangerous downward spiral with regard to social benefits.
Concernant l'emploi enfin, parce que l'ouverture à la concurrence des services portuaires - en particulier de ceux qui utilisent le plus de main-d'uvre comme la manutention du fret - risque de plonger les ports européens dans une dangereuse spirale du "moins-disant social".