{"id":3762,"date":"2013-04-18T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2013\/04\/18\/illegal-strike-brings-chaos-to-chilean-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:34:55","slug":"illegal-strike-brings-chaos-to-chilean-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2013\/04\/18\/illegal-strike-brings-chaos-to-chilean-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Illegal\u2019 strike brings chaos to Chilean ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sympathy strikes broke out at 15 other national ports, with that at Puerto Central in the main Chilean hub of San Antonio still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting chaos spread throughout many industries, which were unable to get shipments processed at the dockside.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilean Finance Minister, Felipe Larrain, urged dockers to quickly resolve the problem, pointing out that jobs were in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>At one stage, farmers had to cease harvesting crops because of a lack of means for exporting them.<\/p>\n<p>The National Society of Agriculture and Fruit Producers calculates the cost to its members of between $80m and $100m, while the Export Manufacturers\u2019 Association claims its members lost up to $14m daily. State-owned copper company, Codelco, which makes extensive use of Angamos, says its losses amounted to $500m.<\/p>\n<p>Questions are now being asked about both the legality of the original strike, which appears to have been called without proper procedures being followed, and also that of copycat action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-week strike resulting from demands by stevedores at the northern Chilean port of Angamos for a 30-minute lunch break and a place to set up a cafeteria ended recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}