The Port Authority of Bilbao has recognized, together with the Uniport cluster, that the strike “seriously affects the companies” that work in the Port of Bilbao, although both organizations have expressed their support “for labor demands”.
The Bilbao Port Authority and the cluster of companies that use the Port of Bilbao, Uniporthave appealed this Friday to dialogue to resolve the “worrying” situation that is causing the indefinite strike of autonomous carriers due to the rise in fuel prices used by their trucks.
In a joint statement released on the fifth day of the transport strike that has ensured that almost no cargo trucks enter or leave their facilities, both port organizations have recognized that the strike “seriously affects the companies that work in this portas a load concentrating center, just as it affects the companies that require road transport for their goods through other ports or other distribution infrastructures”.
They also acknowledge that the strike is generating “fear” in “those road carriers who wish to work” and that, in the case of the Port of Bilbao, “this situation does not allow goods unloaded from ships to be dispatched with any degree of normality, nor to receive in the docks the merchandise for its export”.
Despite the situation created in the transport of merchandise arriving at the Port, from the Port Authority they point out that “the Port is open; the Port does not close and as a critical infrastructure will remain open and the maritime terminals are fully operational, attending to the ships in port and prepared for those that have a planned stopover”.
“The merchandise that cannot leave the docks, is stored in them, which have enough space to serve the announced ships and their merchandise”, they have specified.
The Port Authority of Bilbao and Uniport express their support “for labor demands” and to the “right that in the course of these claims the integrity of the people who want to work and their property be respected.”
After appealing to dialogue to resolve the situation, they acknowledge that “the situation of land transport is as complicated as or more complicated than in other economic sectors due to the exceptional circumstances that have been concentrated over time.”
Source: Eitb
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