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Mar 27, 2017

TRUCKER BLOCKADE * Brazil - Are demanding higher pay from ports terminals

* SC - Trucker blockade adds to Brazilian meat shippers' woes

--- Truckers are demanding higher pay from terminals in the ports of Itapoa and Itajai. Brazilian meat shippers reeling from the shock of bans on their products in key markets have suffered another blow as truckers blockaded Porto Itapoa, an important gateway for chicken exports... Independent truck drivers blocked the entrance to the port with 40 trucks for several hours on Wednesday, and Itajai — some 50 nautical miles away — was also affected by demonstrations, although not as much. The ports of Itapoa and Itajai handled around 115,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) of chicken in 2016... A spokesperson for Porto Itapoa confirmed to JOC.com that the truckers’ blockade had affected operations for “between four and five hours on Wednesday,” but everything was back to normal Thursday... The truck drivers are demanding a 30 percent pay increase, but the three box terminals in the ports have only offered 15 percent increases. Inflation in Brazil currently runs at around 5 percent after hovering around 9 percent for most of last year, and fuel prices have been rising steadily, adding to the truckers’ ire... 
(Photo: Port Itapua, SC, Brazil)   --  Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil - JOC, by Rob Ward - Mar 23, 2017

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Jul 21, 2016

UBER FOR TRUCKS * Brazil: "CargoX" described as

* Sao Paulo - Goldman Sachs leads $10M investment in Brazilian trucking startup CargoX


--- CargoX, a Brazilian startup that has been described as “Uber for trucks,” is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding... The analogy is kind of irresistible, since Uber co-founder Oscar Salazary is one of CargoX’s investors — he’s certainly seen his share of “Uber for X” pitches, but he told me he sees a big opportunity here due to the fragmentation in the Brazilian trucking market... CEO Federico Vega said that Airbnb is probably a better analogy than Uber, but either way, the company works to connect businesses that need to ship freight with truckers who have excess capacity. Brazil reportedly has an excess of between 300,000 and 350,000 vehicles, with trucks running empty 40 percent of the time, so the goal here is to reduce the number of empty trucks on the highway, increasing revenue for truckers and reducing costs for freight owners... He added that CargoX has a network of 150,000 trucks. In some cases, truckers only contact the company if, say, they’ve made a delivery and are looking for freight to take on their return trip. Other truckers get all their freight from the company — “in an ideal world,” he said, CargoX would work with more and more truckers in that exclusive capacity... 
(Photo: CargoX CEO Federico Vega, with his director of logistics Alan Rubio)  --  São Paulo, SP, Brazil - TechCrunch, by Anthony Ha - 20 July 2016

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Nov 7, 2015

STRIKE * Brazil: Government working to stop trucker strike

Sao Paulo - Government scrambling to block planned strike for Monday


-- The government of Brazil is scrambling to block a strike planned by independent truck drivers for Monday... Drivers want a reduction in the taxation of diesel fuel and the scrapping of fines imposed on them for the previous strike and “spontaneous roadblocks” carried out during a two-week period back in February. They also want the government to provide “soft loans” with subsidized interest rates... Brazil’s prime minister, Dilma Rousseff, has sent Ricardo Berzoini, of the government secretariat, and Justice Minister Eduardo Cardozo to enter talks with truckers’ representatives and also to monitor their movements in the run-up to Monday. A strike would hurt the economy and deal another blow to Rousseff who has been reeling from backlash over the ailing economy and corruption allegations... The Comando Nacional do Transporte, or National Transport Command, claims to speak for some of the independent truck drivers and is among those voices calling for the strike. The group has links to Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL, or Free Brazil Movement) and Revoltados On Line (the On Line Disgusted), which are social media movements trying to bring down the Rousseff government... 
Santos, S.P., Brazil - J.O.C., by Rob Ward - Nov 05, 2015

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