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Another special general meeting of the owners of trucks and cisterns for public utility decided to terminate the one week strike. The meeting was convened after the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Dimitris Repas said the government is still willing to negotiate. On the evening news block on Mega TV, he said that the government is even willing to cancel the civil mobilization as well as the measures for insubordination (such as arrest and revocation of license), if drivers decide to stop the strike and return to their jobs.

At the same time the supply of fuel and products of first necessity by private transport companies and military trucks and cisterns continues. According to the latest information at least 25% of the petrol stations in the Athens area have gasoline, and private vehicles have undertaken the supply to the supermarket so that on Monday nothing is missing from the shelves in big stores. Between 40% -50% of the petrol stations in Thessaloniki area are supplied with fuel and the compotes plants in the region have already started again their normal activity and are taking orders once again.

Yesterday evening, Prime Minister George Papandreou announced that the country needs to live throught its natural revolution in these difficult times, but this does not mean that it will back down from its plans for market liberalization. The government is prepared to withdraw the threat hanging over the drivers who do not want to respond to the civil mobilization, but they must immediately return to work in order for the market to recover its normal rhythm in the next three days. Their proposal for tax offsets and for the issue of an additional license remains and the law for the liberalization of the closed professions remains to be voted in mid-September.

At the same time the strike does not meet the expected from the general public understanding and impedes the already diminished flow of tourists in the country, and according to data presented by the Greek Antenna TV, Greece is losing about 100,000 bookings a day after the third day of the announcement of the strike by the freight carriers. Representatives of local government of the remote parts of the country and the islands urge the drivers to call strike to an end before the drugs and products of first necessity do finish in their areas.