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Hi everyone. My wife and I just shipped a 40′ container full of our household goods and 1 car today. I was told by my shipper, Charles Zeller with Ship to Costa Rica that there may be a possible strike in Puerto Limon. Charles has mentioned that it may or may not directly affect us, but I’m still unsure (until our shipment arrives next week from Tampa) what that means to us. Has anyone else heard of this?? He said that usually they move 60 containers per day through Puerto limon, and now the customs workers there are demanding more money from the government and only TWO containers per day are moving through. This means lots of frustrations for anyone importing or exporting right now it would seem. Any other information on this is appreciated.
Mad Dog,
The Arias administration is going forward with a plan to bid out port operations. The port workers union (JAPDEVA) is peeved. On 9/28 there was an article in La Nación (www.nacion.com) about the police basically declaring martial law at the port, and at the current time the port workers are working normally under the watchful eye of the local cops. They were worried about violence, but none ocurred. There still may be a strike, but a “huelga de tortuga” is more likely. This is when the union, in lieu of walking out, simply works really slowly (turtle strike).
Whether it will happen or not is anyone’s guess.
According to La Nacion “Policía incapaz de contener tortuguismo en puerto Limón” menaing the “The police are incapable of containing the “go slow” in Port Limon.’
As part of this, there is only one port crane working instead of three cranes and truck drivers (who are sitting there waiting for DAYS) are complaining that they are loading two containers in the time that they would normally load 12.
So whatever is coming into and out of Limon will be delayed.
Scott Oliver
Besides the current strike you can never tell when the truckers will go on strike in Costa Rica. You can also not predict how long anything will take to go through customs in Limon. A combination of the two cost a friend of mine a four month delay on an equipment shipment.
Among the things my friends have shipped to CR was a used automobile. A popular Toyota 4×4. Despite all the testing and paperwork being properly processed in the US it all had to be done again in CR at a significant cost.
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