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The manager of Public Affairs of the Port of San Antonio, Carlos Mondaca, commented on the main effects of the mobilization and unemployment of truckers in the export / import of products.
As Mondaca explained, at this time there are 290 thousand tons of grain for animal and human consumption in the Puerto Panul terminal, where the main meat imports and the poultry industry arrive.
This terminal does not have collection centers, so in a normal situation, the products were unloaded directly to the trucks, now they are on a ship, waiting for the arrival of a truck.
“The Chilean importers who bought the wheat that they have not been able to unload because there are no trucks, leased this ship so that it would go to Argentina to look for the grain, that lease costs $ 20,000 a day, so this wheat has a surcharge (until today ) of 100 thousand dollars Who is going to pay that? Probably the end customer will pay for it, and who is the end customer of a shipment of wheat? We are all Chileans who eat bread “he explained.
The official explained that Puerto Panul is specialized in unloading food products, making it difficult to move cargo to other terminals or ports.
“Nobody is oblivious to what the transporters have experienced in La Araucanía, but here we are also talking about what Chileans are going to eat in the coming weeks,” he told Expreso Bío Bío.
Regarding exports, Mondaca said that this Tuesday was the first day that vessels left without full cargo, because some products could not reach the ports.
“Today began the first cycle of incomplete shipment from San Antonio (…) We are talking about products such as the fruit pulp that is produced in Romeral, we are talking about affecting the work of other Chileans “, he indicated.
Finally, Mondaca indicates that the situation could be more serious if the storage capacity of ports in Chile collapses, which could even lead to products being left in other countries.
“When the storage capacity is finished, what can happen is that the cargo that comes to Chile is left to other countries, such as in the port of Callao in Peru,” he added.
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