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TRUCKING INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE * Greece
* Greece - Truckers show plight as groceries show up frozen
Athens,Greece -Bloomberg News, by Jonathan Stearns -Feb 13, 2014: -- A truck carries a container as it passes the commercial terminal of Piraeus Port... Alexander Paraskevas is on the front lines of Greece’s effort to transform itself into an economy that can compete in the 21st century... Paraskevas, in charge of ensuring goods get from point A to point B for the country’s biggest chain of wholesale stores, Metro SA, has hundreds of complaints about truck services that show how far Greece still has to go... Trucking, like more than 300 other Greek professions, was ordered deregulated as part of the deal for 240 billion euros ($327 billion) in international aid. The whole revamp has yet to produce the promised benefits because of a combination of Greek political procrastination and a recession that has shrunk the domestic economy by about a quarter since 2008... Greece has about 33,000 trucks with public licenses to transport goods on behalf of customers and about 1 million vehicles, including vans, with more restricted delivery rights as companies’ private fleets...
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