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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * South Korea - Ports Reeling From 3rd Day of Truckers` Strike
Saturated Ports - The nationwide truckers’ strike entered its third day yesterday, as cargo transportation at ports and inland container terminals saw their operational rates plunge
Seoul,Korea -The Dong-A llbo -June 16, 2008: -- ... With 15,000 truckers across the country on strike, disruption in cargo transportation is getting increasingly serious. Certain ports such as Busan North Port are struggling to handle import and export cargo... The ports of Gamman and Shingamman were effectively shut down as their cargo occupancies exceeded 100 percent. Tractor trailers with containers stopped operating, but cargo ships kept coming in... With the truckers’ union on strike and more non-unionized truckers joined, the port of Gwangyang saw its cargo transportation rate fall to less than 10 percent... The inland container terminal in Euiwang, Gyeonggi Province, also saw cargo transportation halved. Most cargo was transported via rail...
Twenty-one crimes including sabotage of other cargo trucks’ operations have occurred since the strike began... Busan police applied for an arrest warrant against a member of the truckers’ union who blocked a container vehicle and destroyed it by throwing a flaming liquor bottle at it... Police in South Jeolla Province also booked two other unionists without detention on the charge of impeding transportation... The strike is unlikely to go away soon as relations among the government, the truckers’ union and shipping companies are complicated... The government and the party are planning to complement existing laws to improve the multi-layered logistics and transportation system. Cargo is consigned over three to four steps, and truckers must pay a 10-percent commission under each step. As a result, they earn only 60 to 70 percent of transportation fees... Economy Minister Lee Youn-ho also visited a petrochemical complex in Daesan, South Chungcheong Province, urging CEOs of corporations suffering damage from the strike to set transportation fares at reasonable levels... (Photos AFP: 1 · Unionised truckers chant slogans during their general strike - 2 · The southern port of Busan on June 15 as cargo terminals remained crippled by a strike by truckers) Labels: truckers' strikes
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