Q&A of the Sardinia Region and Confitarma on the "dear one you ferry"



The problem of the increase of the rates of the ferries for the Sardinia, Shipping second the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), "cannot find some solution if not through a examination of the below reasons to the current composition of the rates offered from the shipowners on the relations of traffic from and for the Sardinia, without conditionings and with the due attention to the substance of the facts".

The shipowning confederation has expressed today such own conviction replying to the content of the declarations of president of the Region Autonomia of the Sardinia, Ugo Cappellacci, and of the city council member to the Transports, Christian Solinas, brought back from some press - according to Confitarma - "with particularly aggressive tones in confronts of the private shipowners".

Slid Wednesday, in a press release, the president of the Sardinian regional agency and the city council member has delineated the strategy of the Region in order to face the problem of the increase of the marine rates. "The Region, owner of the company of Saremar navigation - it is explained - has deliberated of giving directives the same one so that it undertakes with extreme urgency all the percorribili roads in order to activate lines of connection with the continent and international for the main commercial and tourist drafts, contemperando the question of transport with the economic sustainability and financial institution of the activity. In particular, the Saremar will have to verify the possibility to activate, also resorting to the institute of the hire with armed hull - on an experimental basis from on 15 June on 15 September - at least two of the following lines: Sardinia North-Oriental (Olbia or Golfo Aranci)/Italy Center-Meridional (Civitavecchia or Naples) and vice versa; Sardinia North-Oriental (Olbia or Golfo Aranci)/Italy Center-Northerner (La Spezia, Carrara or Livorno) and vice versa; Sardinia North-Western (Porto Torres)/Northern Italy (Genoa or Savona) and vice versa".

The president of the Sardinia Region has remembered that last March the agency has constituted a technical table with the companies of navigation "in order to face all the issues inherent to the connections from and for the Sardinia, with particular attention to the rates and the commercial and advertising aspects. We have offered - it has specified Cappellacci - our availability also to deepen the regarding topics the service conditions. Although our efforts, we have had to take note that the carriers have taken refuge in their positions and that from part they you have not been the just sensibility to face the issue are in the short one that in the long period. Neither you it has been the just knowledge that in order to return the competitive Sardinia on the international scenes is necessary a system effort, that it regards politics, but must regard in egual way the protagonists of the same system. So on 5 April the committee has deliberated the resource to the Guarantor Authority of the Commerce and the Market, that the importance of the marked facts is examinee now. We have the duty - it has added Cappellacci - of protecting is the right to the freedom of circulation of the single citizens, it is the right of an entire Island not to see unjustly compressed own possibilities of development and, since in front of extraordinary situations extraordinary remedies are necessary, will go ahead in the indicated direction".

From part its Italian Confederation Shipping has emphasized that "also in the course of the recent encounter promoted from the shipowners on 3 March to Rome with a characterized delegation of the associations of the consumers, is emerged that the rates from and for the Sardinia - however inferior regarding those more breviums applied by the other European carriers on drafts also - record increases justified from the greater costs, bunker firstly but not only, than the companies of navigation to they time has quickly and endures in this period, with losses of varied million euro".

"It is well to emphasize - it has evidenced Confitarma - than the passenger of the ship is for the shipowner a customer for favoring in any case possible, with obvious positive returns for the same company of navigation that has all the interest to fill up its ships".

Confitarma has concluded wishing "confronts transparent and constructive between the summits of the Independent Region Sardinia and the operating companies of navigation in the traffics with the island, thanks to which it is possible to search with better strategies and new solutions in order to come encounter to the requirements of the passengers, residents and tourists, that they use the marine services of the private armament.
With respect to the solution shown from the summits of the Region, Confitarma reserve to introduce own appraisals as soon as it will be possible to know the details of the operation".