Yildirim responds to port fee protests

The chairman of Yilport Holding has responded to accusations that port fees at Puerto Bolivar in Ecuador are being unfairly increased.

After protests from banana producers, on November 27, representatives of the Ecuadorian province of El Oro requested that the public-private partnership between Yilport and the Ecuadorian government be re-examined.

Workers in the province’s banana industry are angry at the fees which exporters and the government pay to Yildirim at Puerto Boliar being increased.