After a call for a meeting between carriers carrying out road closures due to diesel shortages and exorbitant prices and between the National Ministry of Transport, in addition to the energy portfolio of Buenos Aires, failed, the National Director of Cargo, Juan Manuel Escudero Ruled out a new meeting with protesters. He further added that despite the protests, the grain ports were “operating normally” and that a tariff table was expected to be held on Wednesday the 29th. There will be no self-proclaimed carriers, but chambers of representation, i.e. the Argentine Transport Federation (Fetra), the Argentine Federation of Freight Carriers (Fadeeac), the Argentine Confederation of Motor Freight (Catac). ) And the Argentine Federation of Logistics and Transport Entities (Faetyl). These subjects are not astonishing.

“They are [por los transportistas que hacen la medida de fuerza] They came but did not agree on who represents whom and uploaded [a la reunión]; “They should have left,” Escudero said ᲔᲠᲘ. The official expanded: “They did not understand anything when they did not climb and we could not understand. I do not know what happened to them that they could not agree. “

On the part of the carriers, they expressed that, as they were informed, they wanted to speak directly with the Minister of Territory, Alexis Guerra. “We did not attend because the secretary wanted to receive us and not the minister. We reached an agreement with the other subjects that we were not going to sit down with the secretary, we want to talk to the minister. We have already met the secretary at another time and it is like talking about coffee, it does not give us a solution. ” Said Carlos Geneiro, secretary general of the National Union of Carriers and Allied Workers of the Republic of Argentina, one of the organizations carrying out the protest.

“If the Minister does not accept us, the President of the Nation will accept us; Just as he received the L-Ghent that he receives from the working class, that we are the ones who are in a state of emergency. “At the same time, we are going to continue the demonstration routes until we have a solution, because we can not do that,” the carrier added.

There is no new meeting

Escudero said in this context that “no new meeting with the protest carriers is planned.” “The exception was the situation, if they had doubts and questions about diesel, there were officials there. [de Energía] For consultation and if they had any doubts about the tariffs, I was there. ” Noted.

Esquire added: “We continue to work with the chambers as needed, with those who have representation and work with the ministry on a weekly basis.

Next Wednesday, at 14:00, a participatory negotiation table will be convened to discuss the issue of tariffs.

Regarding the situation in grain ports such as Gran Rosario, he noted: As of today we have no news, they are working normally.