REPORT: Owners of transit export trucks stage sit-in on Tripoli highway

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11-05-2015 | 08:44
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REPORT: Owners of transit export trucks stage sit-in on Tripoli highway
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REPORT: Owners of transit export trucks stage sit-in on Tripoli highway

The owners of regular and refrigerated cargo transit trucks staged a sit-in Monday on Tripoli highway, to protest against the government’s failure to resolve the transportation issue after the closure of Nassib crossing on the Syrian-Jordanian border.

 

The protesters threatened to escalate their movements should the cabinet fail once again to meet their demands, proposing to provide ferries in order to transport the trucks by sea.

 
120 truck drivers were stranded at al-Omari crossing along the Saudi Arabian-Jordanian borders and remained trapped for several weeks. 

Similarly, Lebanese truck drivers, who were kidnapped by the Nusra Front on the Syria-Jordan Nassib border crossing last month returned home after weeks-long ordeal and following diplomatic efforts.

According to one of the drivers, al-Qaeda-affiliated group, al-Nusra Front was behind their entrapment, since they arrived there when the battle for the crossing began, and after the Jordanians closed the borders, they were stuck and the rebels took over the region.

He added that several groups, including some factions that could not be identified, entered the crossing after the battle, stating that they were interrogated in an underground location, before an al-Nusra Front court ordered their release and remained under the protection of the Free Syrian Army.

As for the trucks, the driver said that they were left at the Nassib crossing because they could not pass into Jordan, pointing out that all of the trucks were looted and most were severely damaged.
 
 
For more details, watch Yazbek Wehbe's full report in the video above

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