{"id":11869,"date":"2021-12-07T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/las-organizaciones-internacionales-del-transporte-piden-a-los-gobiernos-que-no-impongan-restricciones-apresuradas-ante-omicron\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:44:44","slug":"las-organizaciones-internacionales-del-transporte-piden-a-los-gobiernos-que-no-impongan-restricciones-apresuradas-ante-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/las-organizaciones-internacionales-del-transporte-piden-a-los-gobiernos-que-no-impongan-restricciones-apresuradas-ante-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"International transport organisations call on governments not to impose hasty restrictions on Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Road Transport Union (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iru.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRU<\/a>), of which CETM is a member, together with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers&#8217; Federation (ITF), have jointly called on governments not to re-impose border restrictions <strong>limiting the freedom of movement<\/strong> of transport professionals in the face of the emergence of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Leading international transport organisations believe that the knee-jerk reactions of world leaders pose<strong> a greater risk of collapse to the global supply chain<\/strong> and show that they have not learned from the mistakes of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>It is essential that cross-border transport workers can carry out their work undisturbed and cross borders without overly restrictive rules as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/la-iru-pide-a-los-gobiernos-que-aborden-urgentemente-la-crisis-de-la-cadena-de-suministro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supply chains are &#8220;already ailing&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As they point out in a statement, a week after the WHO designated the new strain as a &#8220;variant of concern&#8221;, <strong>at least 56 countries have re-imposed various travel restrictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Considering this situation, the IRU and the other organisations call for an end to &#8220;the rushed and fragmented approach to travel rules&#8221; and state that what is really needed is <strong>&#8220;decisive and coordinated action&#8221;<\/strong> to ease the tension in the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>They also expressed frustration that governments have failed to deliver on the measures they advocated in September, which are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure the free and safe movement of transport workers.<\/li>\n<li>Prioritise transport workers to receive WHO-recognised vaccines.<\/li>\n<li>Adopt durable industry-developed travel and health protocols for seafarers, drivers, and air crew, supported by WHO, ILO, IMO and ICAO.<\/li>\n<li>Create globally harmonised, digital, and mutually recognised vaccination certificates and processes to demonstrate health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are critical to ensure that transport workers can cross international borders.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the global supply of vaccines at our disposal to accelerate the recovery of our industries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IRU Secretary General Umberto de Pretto expressed his disappointment at how &#8220;governments unilaterally change hundreds of rules affecting cross-border transport workers in a matter of hours&#8221; and denounced the situation faced by professional drivers who <strong>&#8220;pay a high price simply to do their job&#8221;<\/strong>. &#8220;They, and all of us who rely on their service, deserve much better,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Road Transport Union (IRU), of which CETM is a member, together with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":11525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[760,810,1673,1736,1738,1750,1672,1749],"class_list":["post-11869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cetm-en","tag-covid-19-en","tag-freight-transport","tag-iru-en","tag-omicron-en","tag-professional-drivers-en","tag-spanish-confederation-of-freight-transport","tag-supply-chain-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cetm.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}