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Border bridges blocked as rail workers seek back pay, benefits

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Former Mexican rail workers held protests and blockades at U.S.-Mexico border crossings in Arizona...

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Environmentalists block Newcastle port, demanding rejection of new coal projects and 75% tax for clean energy transition

Environmental activists from Rising Tide blocked the Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal […]

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Borderlands: Mexico’s truckers plan nationwide strike, blockades

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico’s truckers plan nationwide strike, blockades; $142B announced for Texas transportation infrastructure; Del Monte Foods moving to Port Freeport; and border airport adds commercial cargo operations.

Mexico’s truckers plan nationwide strike, blockades

A massive strike and protests by cargo truck drivers on roads across Mexico are planned for Tuesday and Wednesday,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/borderlands-mexicos-truckers-plan-nationwide-strike-blockades

Training program helps truckers navigate possible protests

Online defensive traning course

As the FBI warns of potential armed protests at all 50 state capitols and in Washington, D.C., leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, an online training provider has launched a new program to help local and long-haul truck drivers navigate possible demonstrations and protests.

Truck drivers across the country ended up in the crosshairs of nationwide protests last year in response to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by police in Minneapolis.

Some drivers were...

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Mexican truckers block US border bridge to protest ‘delays’

Truck drivers in Mexico blocked northbound access to the World Trade Bridge border crossing into Laredo, Texas, for several hours Friday, according to Armando Taboada, assistant director of field operations at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Laredo Field Office. 

“Traffic is now moving north and southbound at the World Trade Bridge, [the] protest and blocking of the bridge seems to be over for now,” Taboada said in an email to the trade community Friday evening.

The Mexican drivers were...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mexican-truckers-block-us-bridge

Mexican farmer protest disrupts trade at Texas bridge

Tractors and trucks blocked access to the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on Wednesday as hundreds of Mexican farmers vented their frustration over government cuts in subsidy prices of sorghum.

The protest started around noon as rural farmers from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas blocked access to the customs station on the Mexican side of the bridge.

“Commercial traffic has been blocked at the Pharr Commercial Crossing (Port of Hidalgo) since early this afternoon by protesting agriculture...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/mexican-farmer-protest-disrupts-trade-at-texas-bridge

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