Trinidad Minister Says Haulers Strike is National Security Issue
Posted on: Sunday, 11 December 2005, 18:00 CST
Text of report by Caribbean Media Corporation news agency website on 11 December
Port of Spain, Trinidad: Strike action by haulers operating from the main seaport here is being treated as a national security matter, Works and Transport Minister Colm Imbert has said.
The Haulers Association has said its members will not remove containers from the Port-of-Spain Port, unless the Port Authority pays them a surcharge for long delays.
Efforts to resolve the matter, which has been negatively affecting the business sector here, have so far failed.
Imbert said he had discussed the matter with Attorney-General John Jeremie and had been advised that the government had a number of options to resolve the issue, including taking "national security steps to end what is essentially a blockade of the Port of Port-of- Spain."
"If on Monday [12 December] the matter is not resolved, then it will be threatening the security of the country and we will have to take whatever action is necessary," Imbert said.
The Minister predicted "a major problem of congestion" at the port if containers were not cleared, but said that ships would not be turned away.
Source: BBC Monitoring Americas
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