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Shanghai offers fee cuts to defuse port strike
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 04 - 2011

Truck drivers fix Saturday a container truck on a road where drivers park their vehicles near a port in Shanghai during the strike. — Reuters
SHANGHAI: The government of the Chinese city of Shanghai is cutting some fees to defuse striking truck drivers' anger over high fuel prices, an official spokesman said Saturday, after days of confrontation earlier this week disrupted the world's busiest port.
The Shanghai government's promised steps, which include “lowering standard fees and removing non-standard fees,” came after the strike made global headlines amid worries the strike could disrupt trade flows in China's biggest commercial hub.
Shanghai is actively taking measures to respond to the strike, the official Xinhua news agency reported early Saturday, citing an unidentified Shanghai government spokesman.
All ports in Shanghai were operating normally, the spokesman added.
Separately, the Shanghai Municipal Transport and Port Authority said Saturday it would cancel certain fees, such as fuel surcharge, while lowering a few other fees for the container road transport sector.
The new measures, which also specified how certain fees should be charged and promised help to companies facing operational difficulties, were aimed at “easing rising inflation and cost pressures on transport companies,” the port authority said in a statement on its website, without mentioning the strike by the truck drivers.
Up to now, Shanghai officials have not commented publicly about the strike, a bold public demonstration of anger over rising consumer prices and fuel price increases in China.
The Xinhua report about the Shanghai government's steps was in English, and China's tightly controlled state media has otherwise made scant mention of the unrest.
On Friday, a crowd of about 600 people milled about outside an office of a logistics company near the Baoshan Port, one of the city's string of ports. Some threw rocks at trucks whose drivers had not joined the strike, breaking the windows of at least one truck.
The situation appeared calm in the Baoshan area Saturday, with no organized activity by the drivers and only a small security presence.
Some drivers said they had heard about the city government's offers while many complained they did not have enough information and vowed to continue the strike unless concrete results were achieved in negotiations with the authorities.
“There is still a strike on. There are supposed to be organizers in talks but I won't believe it until I have the money in my hand,” said one driver from Henan province who wouldn't give his name.
“If I earn 10 yuan, and it costs me 11, what's the point?” he said.
Another driver named Li said he was confident that the government would have to take measures to resolve the situation. “If the situation doesn't change there won't be any truck drivers left here. We'll all go back and find other jobs,” he said. “It's not that I'm striking. I just can't continue to do a job where I end up losing money,” he said.
Authorities would meet representatives of the truck drivers Monday for talks aimed at ending the strike, a policeman told the striking drivers Friday when security officers tried to disperse the crowd.
Text messages containing threats of violence against drivers who do not take part in the strike were still circulating among drivers Saturday.


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