The Federació Empresarial d'Autotransport de Tarragona (FEAT) has issued a statement directed at farmers and ranchers, requesting that their protest actions against the Mercosur agreement aim for a broader "political effect," impacting the general public rather than just the productive sector.
Cutting off access to the Port of Tarragona, highways, motorways, and roads for days severely harms social and economic sectors, especially road transport.
The FEAT, while explicitly supporting "the reasons for the protests" denouncing the effects of the Mercosur deal, warns that it "cannot allow" these actions to be carried out "at the expense" of the transport industry.
The federation points to protests scheduled for Thursday in other autonomous communities as an example, which include slow marches, 15-minute cuts, and on-foot demonstrations in emblematic spaces—methods that, according to the FEAT, allow for protest "without hijacking productive activity."
