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.