Freezing of the Tirrenia rates for the transport of the goods



The immediate block of the rates practiced from the company of Tirrenia navigation is decided for the transport of the goods. It has announced the president of the Region Sardinia, Ugo Cappellacci, to the term of the summit of this morning to Rome with the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, and the administrator of Tirrenia, Ettore Morace.

"This, for us - Cappellacci has explained - was the condition for being able to start the dialogue. It is opened now - it has added - I confront finalized see again the convention with the objective to reduce the rates. The technicians are already to the job in order to arrive in times tightened to the result. To how much happened in the past - it has specified - the Region it participates actively to the process, contrarily in sight of what for us the final objective remains: the passage of the functions in matter of marine connections to the Sardinia Region".

Today Cappellacci also is listened to in audition near the commission Transports of the Chamber of Deputies on the topic of the marine connections from and for the Sardinia, on which - it has emphasized - the Region is engaged on more foreheads. "In the first instance - it has specified Cappellacci to the parliamentarians - there is the necessity to face the contingency, that it is a real urgency. To this end the block of the increase of the rates goods determined this morning during the summit with minister Lupi is a positive fact also by the government. I confront this morning opened has specified - it continues with E region government that will be confronted with Tirrenia on the possible modifications of the convention, with the objective to arrive to a price cutting. According to aspect it regards what for us it is the irrenounceable final objective: the effective transfer to the Sardinia Region of the functions and the resources on the marine territorial continuity. Our island - it has emphasized - must be protagonist, not more bystander of the relative decisions to the connections by sea with the peninsula. This passage would be the only guarantee that would put the right to mobility of the Sardinians, than cannot be questioned, protected from the logical ones of the market and above all from the violations of the principles of the free market".

"There is then - it has continued Cappellacci - a third point on which we are determined to go ahead. In 2011, tightened in a vice from the final phase of Tirrenia as a company it publishes and from the trust of the private shipowners, we have completed a famous experiment as the Sardinian fleet. Now we are working in order to obtain the green light of the European Union in order to launch stable a Sardinian fleet, that she is - has concluded the president of the Region - the "lookout" of the right to mobility of the Sardinians and that part of marine continuity that in the current picture does not turn out to be covered".

The announcement of the freezing of the rates for the transport of the goods with the ferries of Tirrenia is received with satisfaction from Trasportounito: "it is - the general secretary of the trade-union association of the road haulage has said, Maurizio Longo - a decision a lot important that now it goes consolidated with the definition of a picture of sure and long-lasting reference". Trasportounito in fact has wished "not to newly have to enter the field on the topic of the rates of the ferries let alone to defense of the "territorial continuity" of the Sardinia".