Soaring fuel price log jam Euro highways
Traders at Madrid's main food wholesale market said supplies of fresh food would start to run out soon.
Portuguese drivers have joined the strike and there were also protests in France over the impact of record oil prices, now at highs of more than $US139 per barrel.
One striking truck driver was killed when he was hit by a van near a market in Grenada in southern Spain. In Portugal, a picket died as he tried to stop a truck on a road north of the capital Lisbon.
Diesel has risen to 1.30 euros/litre from 0.95 euros a year ago, pressuring European Union (EU) governments to help heavy fuel users such as truck and taxi drivers, fishermen and farmers.
In Asia, governments are struggling to prevent rising prices making the burden on the public so heavy that it threatens political stability.
South Korea's Cabinet offered to resign in the face of huge street protests about the policies of its unpopular President Lee Myung-bak.
European countries face their road transport protest after the surge in fuel price,roads with tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal came up with collective protests against rising fuel prices causing mayhem on main roads, highways and blocking border crossings.
Long tail of vehicals up around cities and on the French-Spanish border put life to restricted move. French fishermen in Mediterranean ports ended their three-week strike over the cost of fuel.
Spain"s second-largest hauliers" union Fenadismer, which claims to represent 70 000 of Spain"s 380 000 truck drivers, launched an open-ended strike Monday, It said it was “peaceful" but followed “massively".
Neogotiation between the hauliers and the government did not draw any conclusion and thus ended in failure, the union said.
Traffic authorities said heavy vehicals,lorriestrucks jammed highways. A show of massive snarl-ups was the scene reported in Madrid and Valencia.
Spanish media reported trucks at wholesale markets were considerably lower in numbers than usual.
French truckers struggling with high fuel costs also staged fresh protests near the Spanish border and in the south-west to pressurise the government for the relief.
Many trucks at the city of Perpignan disrupted traffic at border posts, preventing ply of heavy vehicals or trucks from crossing and causing a tailback of nearly 8 KM on both sides of the border. However private cars were allowed to pass through.
Truck operator,drivers,protesters displayed banners which read: “Trucker Unemployed," and “It"s the end of our profession."
More than 200 trucks converged on the four main highways leading into Bordeaux yesterday morning.
Jean-Pierre Morlin, president of the European trucking organisation for the Aquitaine region aid his organisation was demanding “immediate measures" to counter the impact of high fuel prices.
Portugal"s Transport Minister Mario Lino was to meet representatives of road transport associations in a bid to end the strike by truckers who had threatened to paralyse the country.
Portuguese drivers have joined the strike and there were also protests in France over the impact of record oil prices, now at highs of more than $US139 per barrel.
One striking truck driver was killed when he was hit by a van near a market in Grenada in southern Spain. In Portugal, a picket died as he tried to stop a truck on a road north of the capital Lisbon.
Diesel has risen to 1.30 euros/litre from 0.95 euros a year ago, pressuring European Union (EU) governments to help heavy fuel users such as truck and taxi drivers, fishermen and farmers.
In Asia, governments are struggling to prevent rising prices making the burden on the public so heavy that it threatens political stability.
South Korea's Cabinet offered to resign in the face of huge street protests about the policies of its unpopular President Lee Myung-bak.
European countries face their road transport protest after the surge in fuel price,roads with tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal came up with collective protests against rising fuel prices causing mayhem on main roads, highways and blocking border crossings.
Long tail of vehicals up around cities and on the French-Spanish border put life to restricted move. French fishermen in Mediterranean ports ended their three-week strike over the cost of fuel.
Spain"s second-largest hauliers" union Fenadismer, which claims to represent 70 000 of Spain"s 380 000 truck drivers, launched an open-ended strike Monday, It said it was “peaceful" but followed “massively".
Neogotiation between the hauliers and the government did not draw any conclusion and thus ended in failure, the union said.
Traffic authorities said heavy vehicals,lorriestrucks jammed highways. A show of massive snarl-ups was the scene reported in Madrid and Valencia.
Spanish media reported trucks at wholesale markets were considerably lower in numbers than usual.
French truckers struggling with high fuel costs also staged fresh protests near the Spanish border and in the south-west to pressurise the government for the relief.
Many trucks at the city of Perpignan disrupted traffic at border posts, preventing ply of heavy vehicals or trucks from crossing and causing a tailback of nearly 8 KM on both sides of the border. However private cars were allowed to pass through.
Truck operator,drivers,protesters displayed banners which read: “Trucker Unemployed," and “It"s the end of our profession."
More than 200 trucks converged on the four main highways leading into Bordeaux yesterday morning.
Jean-Pierre Morlin, president of the European trucking organisation for the Aquitaine region aid his organisation was demanding “immediate measures" to counter the impact of high fuel prices.
Portugal"s Transport Minister Mario Lino was to meet representatives of road transport associations in a bid to end the strike by truckers who had threatened to paralyse the country.
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