Transport sector protests intensify on ninth day of strike

Carriers keep up the strike this Tuesday and the situation intensifies little by little. In the last few hours, several employers’ associations, including Fenadismer, have decided to join the strike as they have been doing for some time. nine days small carriers, given “the lack of specificity” in the aid promised this Monday by the Spanish Government.

The protest of the transporters in Navarra returns this Tuesday morning to the center of Pamplona to denounce that the situation that the transport sector is going through is “critical and unsustainable”.

A week ago more than 300 vehicles made a caravan of trucks from the union headquarters in Galar called by the Hiru union. Today it is Tradisna that has called a slow march of trucks that the organizers hope will be massive again. The carriers have begun to arrive at the Ciudad del Transporte around 9:30 in the morning and after 10:00 they have started the route that will take them to the center of Pamplona.

From Tradisna they remember that, in recent months, the self-employed and small and medium-sized companies that are dedicated to the transport of goods by road are suffering from the rise in the price of diesel, an essential engine for their work.

The truck drivers say they have no choice but to press and more and more sectors are suffering the consequences of the strike, although the food supply is guaranteed.

The Basque inshore fleet started the week moored in port due to the transport strike and today the skippers will meet again electronically to decide whether to go back to fishing.

From the Hiru self-employed union, which in the Basque Country supports the indefinite transport strike due to the high price of fuel, they have requested the direct involvement of the Basque Government and the Provincial Councils in the search for solutions to the problems of the sector.

For his part, Ricardo Barkala, president of the Port Authority of Bilbao, believes that the Government of Spain should try to deactivate the transport strike “as soon as possible”, without waiting to take action at the next Council of Ministers, on the 29th. of March.

Meanwhile, the Basque Government has proposed in the Sectoral Conference for the Plan of response to the war in Ukraine the adoption of “urgent” measures aimed, among other objectives, at “solving the problem of the price of energy” and finding “alternatives of supply” to avoid stoppages of companies.