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TRUCKERS' STRIKES * WORLDWIDE
* Costa Rica/Panama - Truck Drivers Strikes At Border
San Jose,CR -Inside Costa Rica -14 July 2008: -- The first major disruption of the nine-month-old Costa Rican-Panamanian free trade agreement came on July 6, when approximately 200 truck drivers from Panama, Costa Rica, and other Central American countries paralyzed cargo crossing from Paso Canoas, Panama to Cerro Punta, Costa Rica... The protest, sparked by exorbitant Costa Rican tariffs and taxes, draws attention to the inconsistencies within the current import/export fee system... Costa Rica previously was charging vehicle operators for driving through the country, even though the fees violated a law passed in 2001. Manuel Mora, president of the National Association of Truck Drivers of Panamá (Canatraca) told that the country "wants U.S. $70 for hauling a load between Paso Canoas and San José and U.S. $140 for travel between Paso Canoas and Peñas Blancas" on the Nicaraguan border... The organization's secretary, Rafael Araúz, called for international cargo traffic along the Inter-American highway to be digitally tracked in order to "to verify who leaves with and without a load, [giving] us the opportunity to check every single load, to make sure that it does not endanger the transporter," a move which would increase transparency in the system... The protesting Costa Rican truck drivers also demand that San José remove taxes on diesel fuels and regulate the amount of non-tico truckers using Costa Rican fuel in order to lower prices...
* South Korea - Korean Truckers' Strike: $5.9 Billion Lost And Counting
Seoul,S. Korea -Forbes (Hong Kong,China/NY,USA), by Vivian Wai-yin Kwok -18 June 2008 - The six-day strike by South Korean truck drivers has already cost the country about $5.9 billion in lost commerce... The strike staged by more than 13,000 truck drivers, including independent contractors and members of the Korea Cargo Workers Union, paralyzed major ports and inland cargo terminals, with shipping containers stacking up... About 23,000 drivers in the construction industry also walked away from their dump trucks, bulldozers and cement mixers to protest surging fuel costs since Monday. The driver stoppage disrupted $2.9 billion worth of exports and $3.0 billion worth of imports between June 12 and June 17, constituting about 1% of South Korea's total trade value in May, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said...
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