Carriers of the internal routes of Panama Oeste, suspended this Monday, the service after receiving no response from the authorities of the National Government on the issue of fuel increase.
This union, through the different organizations, request the revision of the ticket rates and that the price of fuel be frozen at B/.2.40 for diesel and B/.3.00 for gasoline. In addition to being affected by “piracy”.
Between 35 and 40 internal routes of La Chorrera woke up without providing the service, affecting hundreds of users who were stranded at the stops.
Henry Velasco, spokesman for the carriers of internal routes, stated that due to the lack of responses to their requests to the National Government they have been forced to paralyze the service. We want a serious dialogue on both sides where solutions to the rise in fuel are found.
Velasco said that for more than 10 years the price of the ticket for internal routes has been maintained at 30 hundredths, and it is fair that a revision be made.
Representatives of the National Chamber of Transport (Canatra) and other groups have expressed that they are suffering losses due to the constant increase in diesel and gasoline.
He stated that this measure will be maintained until there is a positive response to their claims.
For the moment, carriers from Arraiján maintain the service after the strike call, however, they do not rule out the stoppage, if they do not receive a satisfactory response to their requests to freeze the cost of fuel.
Vehicular traffic is fluid despite the fact that they announced the closure of the Inter-American highway at different points. Anti-riot units of the National Police remain deployed in different areas of the highway.
On the other hand, a group of carriers from the selective and collective sector remain concentrated at the headquarters of the West Panama Transit and Land Transportation Authority (ATTT), in order to carry out a protest.
