ROME – “The management costs of companies that carry out transport to and from the main islands of the country are strongly influenced by the additional costs they have to sustain to ferry the vehicles, the so-called maritime freight. From Monday 1 July, with a classic and laconic “gentilissimi”, the shipping companies apply a further increase for the ferrying of vehicles that also go well beyond 120 euros per vehicle”. Thus in a Unatras, which speaks of “unstoppable growth in costs that already in the period January 2019/January 2024 recorded an increase of approximately 70%.
And he adds: “The environmental transition cannot happen in isolation, but must be closely integrated with the economic and social transition. It cannot lead to a loss of economies of scale and jobs for some and opportunities for others. The costs of safeguarding the environment cannot always be borne by the last link in the economic chain. This is why we ask the ministry and the Government to intervene urgently to prevent, first and foremost, any speculation. In the immediate future, however, it is necessary for road haulage companies to survive. As we have been asking for some time, therefore, it is necessary to introduce regulatory changes that allow hauliers to automatically recover this surplus of costs in their invoices, as should already happen for diesel fuel”.
Then Unatras concludes: “We are certain that Minister Matteo Salvini intends to carry out an environmental transition that goes hand in hand with the economic and social one and that therefore he will implement these requests as soon as possible. Only in this way will it be possible to guarantee an effective and lasting change towards a more sustainable and equitable development model”.
