Stakeholders in export-import business through Kochi port has appealed to the Trade Union Coordination Committee to withdraw the 24-hour trailer lorry strike it has called for and negotiate with the authorities to get their grievances addressed.
The Coordination Committee is a combine of ten trade unions representing about 3,000 container trailer workers serving Kochi port and Container Transshipment Terminal. The trailer lorry workers have been demanding proper parking facility and an end to what they called harassment by local people.
Sources in Steamer Agents’ Association here said the strike, coming as it was in the last week of March, had plunged business schedules into disarray. Exporters have targets to meet with mainland sails scheduled from the Container Transshipment Terminal here over the coming days. These sails include one to Dubai and another to mainland Europe via Colombo.
‘Haphazard’ parking
Cochin Steamer Agents’ Association has brought the attention of the city police to the practice of parking light and heavy goods vehicles near the Naval airport on both sides of the roads towards the entry point to the Thoppumpady BOT bridge as well as to Maradu and Thevara.
