Tag: Brazil truckers strike

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  New conflict brewing with Brazilian truckers

  

  Talks on new prices for truck freight in Brazil, following a nationwide truckers strike in May, have yet to be concluded and the lack of a deal is hurting goods transportation, Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said.

• Saturday, June 9th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Brazilian consumer prices climb 0.4% in May; impact of truckers strike and fuel prices expected in June

  

  Brazil's 12-month inflation accelerated in May from April amid strong fuel prices. Consumer prices rose 0.40% in the month, compared with an increase of 0.22% in April, statistics agency IBGE said on Friday. The consumer price index advanced 2.86% in May from a year earlier, up from April's 2.76% pace.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 07:06 UTC

  Truckers strike is estimated to have cost Brazilian agriculture some US$ 1.77 billion

  

  The 10-day-long Brazilian striking truckers protests are winding down and companies from meatpackers to soy crushers are resuming operations. Some problems persist in some sectors and will need time to recover. Primary estimates of losses for farmers' sector could reach US$ 1.77bn

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:02 UTC

  Brazil's strike: massive losses: 70m chickens slaughtered; exports of soy, sugar and coffee cancelled

  

  Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supplies and exports from one of the world's agricultural powerhouses, triggering the premature slaughter of millions of chickens as feed failed to reach farmers. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Brazil, the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chicken.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  Petrobras workers Wednesday strike was declared illegal

  

  Brazil’s Superior Labor Court (TST) ruled on Tuesday that a 72-hour strike planned by workers of state-run oil company Petrobras was illegal, the office of the government’s solicitor general said.

• Monday, May 28th 2018 - 06:46 UTC

  Brazilian government yields to demands of truckers week-long strike

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer announced late on Sunday new measures to reduce operating costs for truckers in a bid to end a week-long protest that has severely hampered the flow of food, fuel and key exports in Latin America's largest economy.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil truckers strike: Government says a 15-day truce had been reached

  

  Brazil's government said late Thursday that a deal had been reached with truckers to suspend a four-day-old strike that caused fuel shortages, cut into food deliveries, backed up exports and threatened airline flights.

• Thursday, May 24th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  Brazil lowers diesel prices 10%, but truckers' strike continues threatening grain exports

  

  Petrobras on Wednesday temporarily cut diesel prices by 10% in order to help the Brazilian government and truck drivers resolve a protest crippling highways.

• Saturday, November 7th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

  Brazil truckers announce strike, and roadblocks, scheduled to begin Monday

  

  Independent truckers have called for roadblocks across Brazil starting Monday in a repeat of the two-week strike that delayed grain and meat transport in late February and early March. However it remains unclear how much support the strike movement has.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 06:17 UTC

  Truckers strike in Brazil still disrupting traffic in several states; soy harvest delayed

  

  Striking truck drivers resumed some roadblocks in Brazil on Monday even as the government cracked down on protesters and promised to implement a law to lower toll costs and give other benefits to the transport sector.