Carriers from Lima and Callao will not comply with the national strike scheduled for this Tuesday.

David MujicaThe spokesman and legal adviser for the Lima and Callao Transporters’ Union announced in the RPP that the stop scheduled for tomorrow in the capital has been suspended.

“The stop is removed. At least tomorrow the public transport unions that I represent are not on strike, no matter what the cargo is, they have another platform for orders. What is public transport, it does not strike,” Mujica said. night air rotary.

National Transport Board (Cotrap – Apoip) determined that there would be a strike on Tuesday due to higher fuel prices
and for demands that the government refuses to comply with. Nonetheless, David Mujica explained that the Ministry of Transport promised to start a dialogue table.

“On Wednesday, what the Ministry of Transport and Communications suggested to us was to start a working table to solve these problems that were not visible. There are no signs of a solution,” he explained.

carriers representative He indicated that the partially resolved issue is the withdrawal of cars from circulation due to age, they were given three to four months, but expressed regret that the fuel subsidy was not provided.

“Economists point out that the best way to subsidize public transport is to seek the reduction or elimination of certain taxes.
It will be about the fight against informality, YOU and it has already shown that they do not have the ability to resist it,” he said.

Finally, he expressed regret that about five ministers have passed since the establishment of the government without providing a solution to the problems that the sector is suffering from.

“We hope that this Wednesday there will be serious decisions and proposals, unfortunately, we have already gone through five ministers, and we did not have continuity, we do not have what the minister or deputy minister promised, unfortunately, everyone believes that they there is a magic wand to solve everything. Point number one is the fight against informality, point two is to try, and the union undertakes to renew the fleet, but with clear rules. There must be an integrated transport system, the ATO has not been able to do this,” Mujica said .

Other interregional transport

Martin Ojeda, director of the National Transportation Council, told the RPP over the weekend that there are four main demands in his sector: high fuel prices, delay in Congress to approve the 70% Selective Consumption Tax (ISC) refund bill, toll reimbursement and the work of the MTC “which prioritizes illegal traffic over the protection of official traffic.”

The leader indicated that his union hopes that the relevant authorities will “take action on this issue in order to solve the problem affecting all sections of society.”