Assologistica asks the government to cancel the previewed increase of the energy cost at the expense of the rail shipment of the goods



Assologistica has been associated to the exhortation to the express government in recent days from FerCargo, Confetra and Assiterminal so that the executive supplies to cancel the effect on the enterprises that 24th june operate in the field of the rail shipment of the goods of the provision contained in article 29 of the bill "Competitiveness". Such article establishes a remodeling of the tariff system electrical worker of the Railroads of the State and previews that "1. Special the tariff regime to the RFI consumption - Railway Net Italian S.p.A of which to I decree of the President of the Republic 22 May 1963, n. 730, are applied to pass from on January 1°, 2015 to the single employed consumption of electric power for transport re-entering in the universal service. With I decree of the Ministry of the economic development to adopt within 60 days from the effectiveness of anticipates decree-law, felt the Authority for the electric power, the gas and the water services and the Authority for transport, are defined the modalities of location of the important consumption to the aims of the performance of the regime. I decree is dawned every biennial, following the same modalities previewed for its adoption. 2. Until the entrance in operativity of the modalities of location of the consumption of which to codicil 1, the annual compensating tariff member, recognized in performance of special the tariff regime of which to same codicil 1, GWh of an amount of 120 million euros is reduced on the exceeding part the quantitative one of 3300. 3. It is made prohibition of traslare the greater burdens deriving from the application of anticipates disposition on the prices and the tolls practiced in the within of the universal service. The Authority for transport supervises on the observance of the disposition of which to the first period, also by means of assessments to champion, and it also supervises on the corrected application of the norm on the market".

Evidencing that the energetic cost is one of the voices that mainly are aggravating the passivities of the budgets of the enterprises, the Italian association of the logistics companies has emphasized that such provision would involve a prelevamento almost 50 million euros from the increase of the energy cost for the rail shipment. "We understand the difficulties budgetary of the State - the president of Assologistica has explained, Carlo Mearelli - but to capture ulteriorly from the enterprises, from the transports and from the logistics it will determine the collapse of the which rooted economic system in our territories".

"Our customers - he has added vice-president of Assologistica, Sebastiano Grasso - will find more convenient to form and to move the trains from the North Europe, removing traffic to our ports or at least the transport of the goods on rubber will turn out very more competitive than today".

Assologistica considers that the consequences of this provision, in a phase of suffering of the traffics and the economy as that current one, will have the heaviest effects determining an ulterior regression of the Italian logistic system in its complex.

The association has found as the necessity of being competitive has in the rail shipment an ally in Italy that it has not replaced, in terms of decongestion, of programmabilità and reliability of the transport of the goods, but on condition that the costs are at least of market regarding the remainder of advanced Europe more. An increase of 30% of the cost of the traces - it has specified Assologistica - is not bearable from the railway cargo and this finds reply also in the opinion expressed from VIII the Commission of the Senate in which the maintenance wonders for the rates current electrical workers for the field.

Assologistica has asked therefore the Renzi government to cancel this provision that risks to determine a step behind irreversible.