The passage to Ecuador is enabled through the Rumichaca bridge.
Courtesy Ministry of transport
The passage to Ecuador is enabled through the Rumichaca bridge.
After an agreement between the truckers unions, the Colombian tractor-trailers will go to Ecuador.
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From hours of the morning of Sunday, January 22, the passage of 50 began mules without cargo that were dammed in ipiales, Narinoaccording to the Colombian Association of Truckers, ACC.
(Also: Due to lack of gasoline, taxi drivers in Ipiales block access to the Ecuador border)
The idea is 800 tractor-trailers will arrive in Ecuador in the next few days and this Sunday, at noon, continue with another 50 cargo vehicles. The tour will be accompanied by the Ecuadorian police and the trucks will re-enter Colombia from another point to be able to connect with the center of the country.
“Fifty vehicles from Colombia to Ecuador are going to pass and they will be guarded by the Ecuadorian police until the San Miguel sector in the neighboring country,” said one of the Ecuadorian authorities.
(Also: 450,000 gallons of Colombian gasoline arrive at the Rumichaca international bridge)
This was possible after an agreement with the trucker union. “vWe are going to make the first advance of 100 tractor-trailers after having reached an agreement with the trucker union of Ecuador”affirmed one of the leaders of the ACC.
In the process, the Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes, was present, who thanked the management from both countries. He also said: “The Government is with you and comes to provide solutions. It comes to tell Cauca and Nariño that we are going to overcome this crisis with all sectors, all ministers and the entire country.”
This Sunday, January 22, more measures will be reviewed to attend to the emergency that has been going on in Nariño for two weeks after a landslide that left the Pan-American highway closed and disconnected the department with the center of the country.
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