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Victoria Mindova

The army in Greece will be responsible for the fuel supply in critical areas in the country such as airports, hospitals, power distribution units, ports, ministries and other. The trucks and cisterns of the army will be accompanied by police jeeps to avoid clashes between the protesters and the contractors. In the distribution of fuels and products will also participate private owners of trucks and tanks to compensate  the gaps in the market. In case it is needed, the Navy will take care of the supply of the Greek islands with fuel and essential products. This is provided in the ministerial decision, announced late on Friday evening.

After the indefinite extension of the strike by the owners of trucks and cisterns for the public the protest against market liberalization in Greece continues, while the government decided to take to the end its threat and civilian mobilization of protesters.

According to the lists submitted by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, municipal authorities in the country are surving by name three types of subpoenas. One type is a summons is for the owner of the license, the second is for registered truck or cistern for public use, and the third is for the employees of the companies that operate the public freight. According to  the latest information more than 80% of the drivers have received their summons, and many of them have visited the police stations themselves to register.

Those drivers summoned for civil mobilization who do not obey the law will face three months imprisonment and revocation of the transportation license. "If they want to throw me in jail so be it, but I will not let them with indifference to steal from us," says a truck driver with thirty years of experience before GRReporter and explains that the summons was served to his house and he himself called the police that he had received it. "It is better to lie in prison than to stay home without work until the government takes the food from my table," he says. According to the governor of Athens Yannis Sguros in the area entrusted to him were served over 28 summonses for civil mobilization, and only in the municipality of Piraeus are served over three thousand subpoenas for tankers to transport oil.

The representatives of the Common Union of Greek oil traders are extremely dissatisfied with the decision of the strikers to continue their protest and are warning that the lack of work will force many private gas stations to declare bankruptcy. Members of the union say that in the region of Attiki are working only about 25% of the gas stations and because of the lack of fuel in most Greek islands there is not a single gas station working.

Tourism in Greece suffered severely from the strike of the carriers. The bookings of rooms for rent on the island of Corfu have decreased by 90 percent. In Santorini the supplies of mineral water in bottles are almost over due to the lack of supply, and the tap water is not drinkable. A huge number of tourists are stranded on the Halkidiki peninsula and can not get to the airport in Thessaloniki due to the lack of fuel. According to press reports the tourists on the island of Crete leave the rental cars at the place where they finished the gasoline, because there is no where to load fuel.