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Sardinian fleet - Trasportounito emphasizes - must be engaged also in the field of the goods and the transport of truck
The monopoly generated with the Tirrenia privatization - accusation the association - risks to strangle also the haulers
October 2, 2012
Trasportounito wishes that the baby Sardinian Fleet, the new company of instituted regional navigation from the Sardinia Region ( on 27 September 2012), it is engaged by quickly also in the field of the goods and the transport of truck, "in order to prevent - it has explained the association of the road haulage - than the monopoly to all purposes and effects that has been generated with the Tirrenia privatization strangles with the Sardinia and its economy, also the haulers".
Trasportounito has emphasized as "the virtual distances between Sardinia and continent have unnaturally become extended and as from the next months, the increases that also the road haulage, as the Sardinian tourists and citizens, they are enduring, ripercuoteranno heavy on the cost of the produced ones and therefore on the cost of living". "The put into effect increases of rate from a Tirrenia transformed in private monopolist - it has found the general secretary of the association, Maurizio Longo - weigh by now in insufferable way on a road haulage already burdened from the increases generalized in the costs of the fuel, the assurances, the freeways. The obligation of service of the navigation company that would have to guarantee the territorial continuity, in reality prices determination of the service by a Tirrenia have been transformed in a uncontrolled power in the condition and that continues to receive, without alleys and controls, masses exorbitant of contributions publics".
"Saremar experience (the former company Tirrenia that is regionalized, ndr) - it has concluded Longo - has had consequences only marginally positive in the transport of the goods. It is time indispensable, and for this reason we ask I confront urgent with the Sardinia Region, than the Sardinian Fleet Spa it supplies answers adapted on the transfer of the goods. He is moreover indispensable that the government makes clarity on the conditions of concession of the service to Tirrenia".
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Trasportounito wishes that the baby Sardinian Fleet, the new company of instituted regional navigation from the Sardinia Region 
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