Media news of transport operators’ strike at IFFCO Paradip was put to rest as IFFCO officials applied top gears to come out of the crisis. Media Head Harshendra Verdhan informed to Indian Cooperative “It is all resolved”.
“The issue was that of vendor change and he employed new trucks of more capacity which led to the reduction of 60 trucks to 50; it was efficiency at its best”, Verdhan concluded.
Readers would recall that the strike spanning 4 days by transport operators of IFFCO Paradip grabbed media attention last week. That did not affect the company’s production but had an adverse impact on the supply of fertilizer to Odisha and the rest of the country, IFFCO officials conceded.
The transport workers were opposing reduction in the number of vehicles for transporting fertilizers from the plant. The new transport company IFFCO had entered into a contract with was using only 50 instead of 60 vehicles and this had enraged the transport drivers and helpers.