The Intergremial de Transporte Profesional de Cargo claims that due to the activities of port unions, unloading is delayed several hours a week.
From the Intergremial of Professional Cargo Transport establish that the delays caused in the Port of Montevideo Due to the union strikes every Friday in the port area, they lose money and force them to fail to provide services to their clients, for which they are evaluating carrying out a strike.
As explained by the president of the inter-union, Ignacio Azumendi, Underlined, truckers are not being able to comply with the services they have with their clients, which, in turn, causes excessive costs due to delays. “We are losing trips, the most perishable thing there is is time, you don’t get it back,” Azumendi remarked.
“Every Friday we have a strike and that exhausts our people. The drivers can’t take it anymore. The claims that the workers may have are fine, but they have to understand that they don’t always have to punish us carriers“He explained and insisted that they understand the unions’ claim but that the situation has already spilled over.
Possible strike?
The president of the inter-union assured that the carriers are medium and small companies that are affected by delays in the Port of Montevideo, becoming totally unproductive.
That is why, in response to the query for your possible unemployment, Azumendi did not rule out the possibility and announced that there were several truckers who had already proposed a measure of force. “We can get to it, several carriers have proposed it and it’s on top of the table. If the State does not provide us with solutions to this conflict, and neither do the port unions, we will have to take action ourselves,” he assured.
On the other hand, the official stressed that they are concerned about the meeting that will take place this Monday with officials of the National Administration of Ports (ANP) where even longer stoppages will be planned. “That would be total chaos in what would be the logistics of importing and exporting foreign trade,” explained Azumendi.
Source: Ambito
