The union conflicts in the port generate 200,000 dollars of daily loss for Paraguay, and the ANP fears that the commercial relationship will be affected.
The Port of Montevideo has 9,000 containers in transit stranded from a series of stoppages that affected the operations of the most important port terminal in Uruguay. The reasons are behind the salary negotiation of the sector.
A total of 58 industrial and foreign trade unions from Paraguay —among them, the Center of River and Maritime Shipowners of Paraguay (Cafym), the Industrial Union, the Rural Association, the National Chamber of Commerce and Services and the Paraguayan Chamber of Meat— warned about the existence of 9,000 containers of merchandise from that country that, as part of an agreement with the National Port Administration (ANP)they use the Port of Montevideo as a transit terminal to their destinations.
These are 13 immobilized vessels containing 5,000 containers intended for the export of raw Materials that require rigorous treatment—and that are at risk of being affected or even lost—in addition to another 4,000 import containers with electronics, machinery, spare parts and products in high demand during the end of the year.
According to the Paraguayan unions, the losses produced by the delays that reached peaks of up to 14 days in the circulation of containers exceed the $200,000 per day. And this situation has been repeated in different periods since August.
Given the current scenario, the group issued a “called to the Uruguayan governmentport workers, union representatives and all those entities involved to establish a dialogue and articulate solutions in the short term that allow us to give again fluidity to international trade and? Montevideo “regain the necessary confidence as a regional transshipment hub.”
What happens in the Port of Montevideo?
The conflicts in el Port of Montevideo that affect the operations of Paraguayan containers is based on the salary negotiation that takes place between the Single Union Port and Related Branches (Supra) and the Navigation Centerwithin the framework of the 10th Round of the Salary Councils.
In the last days of November, the union carried out different measures of force such as strikes in Cuenca del Plata Terminal and general activity cuts in port and extra-port warehouses. At the moment, these actions are on hold while workers wait for the business response.
Meanwhile, the ANP closely follows what happens in the port, while from Paraguay They insist that their entire flag fleet is affected, so the future of the conflict could even condition the relationship with the neighboring country.
Source: Ambito
