Equally, the knock-on effect of these incidents is enormous, not only for the logistics industry but our economy more broadly.The sabotage of trucks on the highways undermines our logistics value chain and in turn, our capacity, reliability and credibility as a trade partner on the global market.
While it cannot yet be said for certain who is behind the attacks, they occur on the back of rising tensions over the hiring of foreigners as truck drivers in the country. It appears that that plan was never acted upon, and the body representing truck drivers has vowed to intensify its protest against what it says is the unfair and large scale employment of foreigners.
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