Argentina: The blockade of Buenos Aires terminals caused damages to the exports of Mar del Plata fishing

Published 2021년 4월 19일

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Over 10 days of labor action at the APMT and TPR terminals in the port of Buenos Aires led to over 4,000 containers being stranded, affecting the fishing industry and increasing operating costs. The blockade, caused by a union conflict within Bactssa, has disrupted the flow of imports and exports, leading to concerns about the fulfillment of commitments and the ability to compete in the international market. Cafrexport, the chamber of exporting companies, has urged authorities to intervene and prevent future disruptions to facilitate the smooth flow of commercial operations.

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It is known that the port of Buenos Aires monopolizes more than 80 percent of the containers that are controlled by the Customs scanner in the port of Mar del Plata. The blockade that for more than ten days affected the APMT and TPR terminals by port workers themselves generated that many containers of the Mar del Plata fishing industry will be unable to enter the port and others who had entered, could not board the ships of container ship. Yesterday morning, with the deployment of police forces, the blockade was lifted and the usual movement was slowly reestablishing itself, although normalization will take quite a long time. It is believed that there are more than 4 thousand containers between imports that could not leave the port and exports that could not get on the ship. The inactivity in these two terminals in Buenos Aires caused Cafrexport last week to raise a note to the Undersecretary of Fisheries to try to intercede in the problem. According to port analysts, there was ...

Source: Revistapuerto