Arguing that the decision is due to the commitment of the search of the profitability, from November 8 the Spanish company of transport by application will stop offering its services in Santo Domingo and Panama City.
As a result of a constant process of analysis of the markets in which it operates, the company has made the strategic decision to stop its service in both capitals, the company said in a statement.
Hugo App, a platform for home delivery services, is one of the companies that accelerated its growth due to the mobility restrictions that have been decreed in the countries of the region because of the health crisis.
In order to contain the spread of covid-19, governments in Central America have decreed mandatory quarantines and restricted the movement of consumers at certain times.
Because of the restrictions on movement decreed in Central American countries, orders in applications dedicated to home delivery have increased considerably.
The services of electronic delivery platforms such as Hugo and Uber Eats, among others, are among the few sectors that will be able to circulate in El Salvador after Nayib Bukele announced on March 21 the home quarantine, which will last 30 days.
DiDi, an application dedicated to the transportation of people, began operating in the country on November 19, offering its services in San José, Cartago, Alajuela, Heredia and Puntarenas.
At the moment, the Chinese mobile application plans to offer in the country the basic passenger transport service, however, the future plans are to provide premium care, which will include higher capacity cars and special vehicles for people with physical disabilities.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
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Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
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In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
Arguing that traditional taxi services and Uber should coexist simultaneously, the government of Costa Rica presented a proposal to regulate the collaborative transport service.
Uber, the computer platform for passenger transportation that has been operating in Costa Rica for more than three years, has faced, as in other markets, the opposition of local taxi drivers, who claim that they compete under unequal conditions.
The implementation of two applications used for home delivery services in Guatemala reinforces the irreversible trend towards better use of available resources through innovation and technology.
One of the applications now available is Uber Eats, which lets people place orders from different restaurants with varied prices.Another of the companies that has started up is Glovo, dedicated to the purchase, reception and shipping of several product categories.
Although the company intends to operate under the format of "self-sustaining community," the criteria of the Attorney General is that "all paid transport is a public service."
The judgment issued by the Attorney General's Office also provides for possible sanctions against Uber for providing transportation services illegally. ".. It is also supported by the legal standard of the CTP which indicates that Uber provides a public service and will never be private, because of the provisions of Law 7969. "
Panamanian private sector representatives are defending the mode of operations of Uber, who announced the launch of its corporate transportation service in Panama City.
As in Costa Rica, the arrival of Uber has generated resistance among traditional public transport sectors, such as taxis. However, Panamanian businessmen believe, like the vast majority of companies in Costa Rica and other countries where Uber is already operating, that space should be given to Uber for the private transport service to operate without government hindrance.
In order to avoid typecasting it as a public transport service, in Costa Rica the company has invented a new concept comparing itself to a private club.
Uber itself created the concept "Self-Sufficienct Community " a scheme used to offer a shuttle service that aims to "make your mobility needs self-sufficient." Under this arrangement, which has been questioned by the government, which argues that the service is illegal, they say they have already recorded "... 17,000 registrations and 25,000 travel requests."
Recognized Brazilian company of backhoe loaders, telescopic, articulated and other types of cranes looking for companies interested in representing the brand and distributing their machinery in Central America and Mexico. The company manufactures and sells telescopic,...