SEOUL - The South Korean government was moving on Wednesday towards ordering more truckers to return to work asBut the administration has so far failed to achieve a breakthrough in negotiations with the truckers, whose strike to extend an income-guarantee programme has widely obstructed shipments from the country, the world’s sixth-biggest exporter.
Despatches of petrochemicals for domestic delivery were down to 65 per cent of normal levels, the transport ministry said on Wednesday, while steel shipments for all customers were running at 47 per cent. Despatches of cement have bounced back to 93 per cent of normal levels from 10 per cent earlier in the strike, thanks to the government telling drivers to return to work, according to the Korea Cement Association lobby group.Suffering from soaring fuel costs, as many as 25,000 striking truckers are calling for a temporary minimum-pay scheme for their industry to be made permanent.
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