REPORT: Truckers Syndicate launches open ended sit-in at Beirut port

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REPORT: Truckers Syndicate launches open ended sit-in at Beirut port
The Union of Truck Owners at the Beirut port commenced Monday an open-ended sit-in, suspending all work until a project to fill the port’s fourth basin is referred to the Lebanese cabinet.       
 
The union also blocked the entrances to the port, thus halting the entry and exit of goods at the facility.       
 
“A conspiracy is targeting the role of this port,” Change and Reform bloc MP Hekmat Dib told LBCI, saying “we will use all democratic means to prevent the filling of the fourth basin”.        
 
“The project that aims to fill the port’s 4th basin constitutes a national and strategic issue that should be addressed by the cabinet,” MP Dib said, noting that “a port and basin of such importance cannot be easily disrupted”.       
 
“This basin is the deepest in the region and by filling it, we would lose 700 meters of tracts where ships are docked,” he added.        
 
For his part, the head of the truckers syndicate Naim Sawaya told LBCI that the union’s main demand is to backtrack on the decision to fill the fourth basin, adding “large areas cannot be exploited for unknown reasons”.           
 
“The union will continue its movements,” he concluded.         
 
In turn, Minister of Tourism Michel Pharaon said there was a “genuine dialogue” regarding the fourth basin at the Beirut port, saying “there are no sectarian dimensions to the dossier”.

In a press conference, Minister Pharaon also noted that the concept of the project is accepted by all parties since it paves the way for additional work at the basin.
 
The aforementioned project will provide more space to store containers. But there are fears that turning the Beirut port into a transshipment hub would direct large vessels to the Port of Tripoli as the 4th basin will no longer be able to receive big cargo ships.
 
As a result, hundreds of Beirut port employees, mostly truckers, may lose their jobs.
 
 
For more details, watch Nada Andraos' report in the video above

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