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Baldissara (ECGs): the companies that transport car fight for survival
the association of the logistics enterprises invites Europe to introduce the incentives to destruction
March 21, 2013
Europe must adopt urgent measures in order to increase the production of automobiles, in particular introducing the incentives to destruction. The appeal has been launch monday slid from the ECGs - Association of European Vehicle Logistics, the association of the logistics enterprises that offer services to the automotive industry, in occasion of dinner the anniversary that ECGs has held near the European Parliament and that it is accommodated by Brian Simpson, eurodeputato British who presides the Commission you transport and tourism of the Parliament EU.
In this moment - it has emphasized the ECGs - such incentives are necessary in order to throw again the national production and to support the European exports. The association has evidenced that without a determined action soon losses of places of work in the section will happen.
The president of ECGs, Costantino Baldissara, has specified that the companies that take care of the transport of motors vehicle have already reduced the investments because of the decrease of the profit margins and the increase of the costs. The field gives job to 70.000 people directly and generates a annual volume of transactions of 22 billion euros. "Our ability to invest - Baldissara has explained - has been capacity to a standstill" and - it has added - "we are in fight for survival".
In the course of the debate with the representatives of the Parliament and the EU commission it is found that, in spite of the crisis, Europe remains an automotive power: in 2011 24% of the produced cars all over the world are realized in Europe. However the internal question is in fast decline and has urgent need of an oxygen puff. Baldissara has specified that Europe has the necessity to not only place remedy to such internal decline, but also to help the exporter to reach the markets of the United States, Middle East and Asia, where the question of vehicles of European qualities has remained elevated: "we need actions - Baldissara has restated - and with absolute urgency. If not there are profits not will be some investment and the companies will disappear. We will lose competences".
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