Sources: La Nacion, BDP International Argentina

August 30, 2009

According to "La Nacion," one of Argentina's leading daily newspapers, and BDP International in Argentina, that nation's Stevedores union lifted the interruption of activities in the port of Buenos Aires on Friday, 28 August. Due to the backlog, it will take time for the flow of work to resume back to normal, but ships are now being loaded and unloaded.

Container shipments were paralyzed in the port of Buenos Aires due to a union conflict that was causing huge losses, the Argentine press reported. The labor dispute pitted the SUPA union, which represents the longshoremen, against the crane operators union, which had stopped cargo terminals of the Argentine capital, industry representatives said.

The labor ministry ordered mandatory mediation, but the longshoremen did not comply with that directive and decided to stage a full strike which caused operating difficulties for at least 17 vessels that were supposed to offload their cargo in Montevideo.