South Korea’s government plans to meet the country’s striking truckers’ union for talks on Monday for the first time since a nationwide walkout began five days ago, as supply chain glitches worsened and construction sites faced concrete shortages.
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The government has elevated its warning of cargo transport disruption due to the strike to “serious”, the highest level in its disruption scale, the transport ministry said on Monday.The second major strike in less than six months by thousands of unionised truckers for better pay and working conditions was criticized last week by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol as taking the nation’s logistics “hostage” in the face of an economic crisis.
Container traffic at ports dropped to 7.6 percent of normal levels as of 5 p.m. local time on Sunday, the transport ministry said, down from 17 percent of normal levels in the morning.
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