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Confetra, the calculated fuel surcharge on the volume of the aerial cargo will hit the export heavy Italian
Marcucci has called in minister Zanonato
September 24, 2013
Confetra, the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics, has launch an alarm for the increase of the aerial transport costs introduced almost simultaneously from some of the more important airlines applying to the fuel surcharge (the additional cost for the beloved fuel) not more on the weight of the goods, but on their volume. Confetra considers that this new calculation will hit deeply the characterized Italian export from goods bulky to high added value, as the fashion.
In a letter to the minister of the economic Development, Flavio Zanonato, the president of Confetra, Nereo Marcucci, has explained that, according to approximate calculations, the new criteria of rate making of the surcharges will carry to an increment of the aerial transport costs between the 30 and 40% for the goods bulky. "Present holds - she has specified Marcucci - than the goods Italian transported via only hung aerial 2% of the total transported in all the modalities, but she represents 35% in terms of value. This situation, typically Italian - it has observed the president of Confetra - does not find in no other great exporting country, so that the decision of the airlines, even if assumed to total level, will have particularly serious effects own on the export Italian, been profitable not more competitive for its elevated logistic cost".
Marcucci has asked minister Zanonato to take part in the more opportune centers in order to ask for this sure nocumento for the national economy, estimating also the eventual violation of the norms on the competition.
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Confetra, the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics, has launch an alarm for the increase of the aerial transport costs introduced almost simultaneously from some of the more important airlines applying to the fuel surcharge (the additional cost for the beloved fuel) not more on the weight of the goods, but on their volume. Confetra considers that this new calculation will hit deeply the characterized Italian export from goods bulky to high added value, as the fashion.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
