FerCargo, the minimal increment of the costs of the electric power would determine immediate the default of the railway companies



FerCargo, the association that collects not riconducibili the Italian railway enterprises of the field cargo to the group Italian Railroads of State (FSI), has sent a note to the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, to the minister of the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, to the minister of the Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan, and to the minister of the Economic Development, Federica Guidi, in which full manifest and absolute contrarietà towards the heavy increase of the cost of the electric power for the railway traction, so as expected in art. the 29 of the bill "Competitiveness". "The norm - the association explains - previews in fact the increment of the costs for every unit of train-km of about an euro, making passing the cost of the toll from current the 3 euros to 4 euros for kilometer".

"Because of the difficulties of the market and the heavy crisis of the field, than in Italy have lost 40% of the volumes from 2007 to the 2013 - FerCargo finds - also minimal increment of the costs would be impossible to absorb for the represented enterprises and for those which they operate in the section; an increase of the cost of the toll so as assumed from the norm in object, that it would increase the business costs in their complex of about 10%, would in fact determine immediate the default of the companies, with consequent fallen back the dramatic one on all the fields (industry, intermodal transport, logistic railway, etc) that today they use these services. Therefore the application of this norm would determine the definitive extinction of the transport goods on railroad in our Country".

The president of the association, Giacomo Di Patrizi, emphasizes as FerCargo has always proposed and suggested useful actions national to the logistic system, being confronted with all the institutional interlocutors in weighted and constructive way, operating in a hit field by now years a most serious never which supported economic crisis and from policies of incentive oriented to the increase and the development, with the exception of how much wishing from the EU and realizing in many European Countries. "In this circumstance, but, dinanzi to a provision that would produce to the negative described economic impact over - precise Of Patricians - Fercargo demands an immediate review of the norm, with the consequent cancellation of every additional burden for the energy cost at the expense of the operating railway enterprises in the field of the transport goods, to safeguard of a field that today in the single section independent of group FSI occupies directly about 1.700 attache's, and that it represents concerning efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability, the future of the logistics and the transports for Europe and our Country".