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Apr 29th 2015 Fire at LDC Terminal at Rosario port / Strike at San Lorenzo port

Date: 29/04/2015

Conflict and fire at Louis Dreyfus Commodities General Lagos' Terminal. 

Yesterday afternoon, arnd 1900 hrs LT, a fire started at LDC Terminal in General Lagos.

Preliminary info indicates that was intentional and the climax of a protest of grain cargo truck drivers.

Incidents started a little bit after 1800 hrs LT for an argument between truck drivers and personnel of cargo quality checking point, which is the previous step before cargo discharging.

Truckers were angry for a while and some drivers pointed out there were over 1.500 trucks waiting for their turn in the line. Some of them for 3 days.

Tension between trucks drivers and Terminals are quite normal during "rough harvest season", when there is an average of 12.000 trucks-a-day waiting for permit entrance to different Terminals and factories. It wasn't the first time that serious incidents happen.

The battle that followed even delayed the firemen, who had to wait for a police escort to enter to Terminal
to fight the fire, which had place one hour later they arrived (Abt 2100 hrs LT).


Strike at San Lorenzo port

From April 30th at 0000 hrs LT, Local Unions Association (COPA), supported by local Work General Confederation (CGT) will go on strike.

This will affect the whole port operations, including stevedores and launch services.

There are rumors there will be also blockades at Terminals' entrances and Rosario port might be affected.

Port Status Since

Bahía BlancaOpen16/03/2019 - 0300 hs
NecocheaOpen03/12/2019 - 0920 hs
RamalloOpen12/10/2017 - 0730 hs
RosarioOpen19/03/2019 - 1710 hs
San LorenzoOpen16/09/2019 - 0820 hs
San NicolásOpen12/10/2017 - 0730 hs
V.ConstituciónOpen12/10/2017 - 0730 hs
CampanaOpen20/04/2017 - 0840 hs
ZárateOpen02/06/2017 - 1040 hs
Zona ComunOpen15/07/2019 - 1240 hs
Recalada P.S.Open19/06/2019 - 0830 hs