Argentine grain carriers go into strike amid harvest.

On Monday, argentine truck drivers went on strike for an indefinite period to demand higher tariffs for transporting grain and livestock, which would affect grain exports during a critical harvest moment.

Argentina, the world’s largest exporter of soy-derived products and the second-largest exporter of corn, recently started harvesting both grains.

“There are no ongoing negotiations,” said Edgardo Aniceto, a spokesman for the Federation of Argentine Transporters (Fetra), adding that the strike has no set deadline.

Trucks transport around 85% of Argentina’s grain production from the fields to the country’s ports, and truck traffic is especially heavy during the second quarter of the year.

Although truckers, the government, and rural associations agreed on new tariffs for transporting grain in early February, Fetra said that increases in the price of diesel made it “impossible to continue working under reasonable conditions”.

Fetra also complained about fuel shortages, to which the national oil company YPF responded by boosting diesel supplies to a decades-high level earlier this month.

Grain exporters in Argentina often have reserves to keep operations running, but if truck deliveries at ports stop for several days, cargo ship deliveries could be affected.

Sources: Notícias Agrícolas

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