Protests affect 60% of food transport, union warns

transport staples for Peruvians have been hit by a series of reports of a blockade of the country’s highways.

According to the president of the Union of Guilds of Multimodal Transportation, Giovanni Diez, the passage of six out of every 10 trucks responsible for the delivery wholesale markets as producers, Santa Anita and Fiori,

Considering this, it is estimated that the loss of the main products is more than 540 thousand Singaporean dollars per day.

“Average cargoes of 900,000 salts enter every day, these are mainly food, fruits, and basic necessities. thousand salts per day at 60%, we are talking about 540 thousand salts per day product in essential products may be affected,” he told RPP.

Despite this situation, Diez points out that carriers do not increase freight rates for land shipments.

“You can’t raise (freight) although it should be, because the stay is more expensive, waiting, they cost overrun that the carrier has. The only abuser in the entire chain is an intermediary wholesaler, because under the pretext that freight is becoming more expensive, lemon, rice, everything is becoming more expensive, and freight does not give him anything, ”he said.

The union representative points out that average freight rates in the north, for example from Tumbes to Chiclayo, range from 60 to 120 soles per ton.

The representative of the Union of Multimodal Transport Guilds points out that Freight transport import products and products intended for export.

“Typically, in the port of Callao alone, we transport an average of $160 million in export cargo and another $160 million in imports. We are talking about a figure exceeding 300 million salts per day. already affect 40% of goods that cannot be mobilized, so they do not go to agro-export plants,” he explained.

Dies assures that if this is not resolved in the next few hours, losses will increase, further affecting other sectors that require cargo products.