CONEP vs FENATRADO

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The country's business associations are calling on the authorities to take urgent measures against the transport monopoly enjoyed by the Fenatrado trucking union. The associations argue that the monopoly increases transport costs and the National Council for Private Business (CONEP) is also encouraging its members to resist being cowed by the union this time round. A Conep press release said that Fenatrado is trying to keep its monopoly on moving cargo from the docks to industries. Conep says this stance has a chilling effect on foreign and private investments. Conep leader Lisandro Macarrulla told reporters from El Caribe that, "intimidation tactics to preserve the monopoly that the union enjoys is undermining national producers and their capacity to compete in local markets." Macarrulla called for the enforcement of the current laws and the application of new measures to correct the "distortions" the union has created. The Dominican Republic Industrial Association (AIRD) also called on its members to resist pressure. Their press release, signed by Manuel Diez Cabral, said that the union was trying to create a "monopoly of freight transport to and from the docks of Dominican ports." Diez Cabral called this practice "inadmissible".

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