Montevideo Port Terminal resumes normal operations after strike

The Cuenca del Plata Terminal (TCP), at the Port of Montevideo, resumed normal operations this Thursday, after seven days without being able to receive trucks due to a workers’ strike.

At 9 a.m. local time (12 p.m. GMT), two hours after employees returned to their posts and the terminal resumed operations, trucks began to be received again.

On Wednesday, representatives of the TCP union met at the Executive Branch headquarters with the Secretary of the Presidency and with the Ministers of Labor and Social Security and of Transport and Public Works.

Later, they held an assembly in which they decided to return to work. As of this Thursday, a ten-day negotiation period also began to reach an agreement on the demands that led workers to suspend their activities.

“They asked us, due to pressure from various sectors of the country’s economy, to take a pause in the measures that the TCP union was carrying out. And we, through this assembly — which was quite difficult for all of us — accepted,” said the president of the Cuenca del Plata Terminal union, Álvaro Reinaldo, to the press.

The union leader added that, although they accepted the government’s proposal, the union will also ask the Secretary of the Presidency to “put the same effort with the company” TCP (whose capital is 80% owned by the Belgian logistics operator Katoen Natie and 20% by the National Port Administration) so that it considers the demands presented.

According to TCP itself, the union refuses to use a new operating system that is already implemented and functioning. The union says it will only accept the system if the company reduces the daily workday from eight to six hours, while maintaining pay equivalent to eight hours.

Check below a history of long-haul container movement at the Port of Montevideo. The chart was prepared with DataLiner data and excludes transshipment, cabotage, and other internal movements:

Long-Haul Container Movement at the Port of Montevideo | Jan 2022 to Aug 2025 | TEU

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On Tuesday, on its account on the social network X (formerly Twitter), TCP shared a message sent to all employees, setting a deadline for returning to work and reminding them that the current bipartite agreement contains a conflict prevention clause, by which both parties committed to preserve the pact and follow a prior process before taking measures.

Based on this, the company warned that if workers did not return to their duties, it would denounce the agreement in force.

(c) Agencia EFE

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