Colombia’s national government on Tuesday presented a multi-point plan to union leaders which it hopes will draw striking truck drivers back to work.
The month-long industrial action by truckers is crippling the economy, causing backlogs of goods at ports and stoking inflation.
At the major Pacific port of Buenaventura, the logjam is approaching the point where arriving vessels may be unable to unload their cargo.
Among other things the strikers are demanding an increase in cargo prices and cuts to motor fuel prices and road toll costs.
The government has asked the union side to consider carefully its 18-point plan addressing the drivers’ issues, although it has ruled out the demand for a 30% hike in cargo prices, which the truckers say could help to cover transport costs on the country’s degraded roads.
