The Government opens its hand with the carriers but is still unable to stop the strike that is collapsing the country

Almost eleven hours of meeting later, the negotiations between the Government and the carriers are still there.

The president of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, had already warned on Wednesday: "we are going to sit down and we are not going to get up until we reach the agreement," he said.

The dialogue has become entrenched in two main points: the amount that the carriers could receive as a bonus for professional diesel and the way in which these aids will be articulated, according to sources close to the negotiations contacted by

.

The Minister of Transport,

, flanked by the Vice President of Economic Affairs,

, and the Minister of Finance,

, attended the meeting with the proposal of 500 million in aid for carriers, but the

(CNTC), the only interlocutor that Moncloa recognizes as valid, they no longer seemed sufficient.

While on Monday he gave his approval to the proposal, this Thursday, according to sources consulted by

, the largest employer in the sector has put on the table the amount of

and that has forced to relocate the positions of both parties.

The Government, aware of the increase in pressure and the

, has opened its hand to extend the aid, although it remains unmoved when it comes to incorporating the callers of the strikes into the table of dialogue.

Moncloa's repeated refusal

any agreement that may be reached, since the

, which calls the strikes, has already warned that if they do not have them, the strikes will continue in the next days.

"Until I sit down with the minister, the strike will not be called off," the platform's president,

, told the

agency on Thursday .

Hernández defended the entity's decision not to call off the strike, considering that "base" truckers and drivers are not represented in it.

In addition, the president of the platform urged to focus on the fact that there is a "structural" problem in the sector due to subcontracting and poor conditions and not a "specific" issue linked to the rise in fuel prices.

This would explain why the agreement to discount diesel does not cover their expectations and demands.

Hernández also encouraged a "multitude" mobilization in view of the demonstration called by the platform for this Friday in the capital.

The appointment will be in the

, near the Ministry of Transport, and the conveners aspire to an

for whom a relevant police device has been set up, according to sources from the

.

Meanwhile, the consequences of the mobilizations continue to spread to the activity of other agri-food industries, as well as to the supply and distribution chains.

In the port of Barcelona, ​​the terminals are "at full capacity", according to its president, Damiá Calvet, who has warned that, if they continue like this, they will have to stop the activity.

Calvet and the presidents of the port authorities of Algeciras, Bilbao and Valencia describe the situation in the large Spanish ports as "critical".

Among the wholesale markets, the situation is holding but if the activity does not normalize, the problems could only be a matter of days.

maintained a supply of 85% of the usual fish and almost all vegetables and fruit;

20% of the missing genre corresponded to Mediterranean fish, such as sardines, wild sea bream or sea bass, a situation that is expected to stabilize with the end of the fishing strike.

In

, the entry of goods was 80%, a percentage lower than that of a normal week in March, although it represents an improvement compared to the previous week.

Sources from this market indicated to Efe that "the difficulty for the departure of goods to other areas of the country remains, which compromises the arrival of some products to Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria or the Basque Country."

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