Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Thousands of truckers strike at Ningbo port, disrupting cargo flow
Thousands of truck drivers went on strike, protesting wages and haulage rates in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo last week, disrupting operations at the world's sixth-busiest port, according to a logistics firm.
Local media said the strike started in the Beilun area of the port with a few hundred drivers and escalated Thursday to a few thousand, who conflicted with police. China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong workers rights group, said as many as 10,000 truckers were involved in the demonstration.
In a statement on its official blog, Ningbo Port said the strike started due to trucking rates, but declined to elaborate. Officials said they were putting measures in place to ensure that port operations were not disrupted and losses were kept to a minimum.
Bonnie Xu, station leader for Ningbo at logistics firm BDP International, said the strike was preventing the company from delivering containerized exports to the port and import containers from being sent out to clients.
Calls to the Beilun district police, government and Ningbo Port were not answered.
The port handled 16.77 million TEUs in 2013, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year.
For more of the South China Morning Post story: scmp.com
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