Trasportounito announces a mobilization of the road haulage in order to protest against the increases decided from the shipowners



Trasportounito has announced an immediate mobilization of the field of the road haulage in order to protest against the increases decided from the shipowners in order to cover the deriving costs having to adapt their fleets to the international norms on the naval fuel that will take effect next the first January and that they have the objective to reduce the polluting emissions. Evidencing that not there is some objection to the fact that the Italian shipowners adapt themselves to the international norms on the reduction of the injurious emissions in the atmosphere, the trade-union association however has denounced as "intolerable and insufferable" the fact that the marine companies "think to totally overturn the costs of the their obliged direct investments on their customers and therefore on the road haulage".

Trasportounito has specified that from the first January the road haulage "will be found to face an increment of the greater costs that vary from the 20 to 30% to draft". "In case not there were immediate participations in a position to attenuating such greater costs - it has emphasized the association - the means of the road haulage they will stop to use the freeways of the sea and will return to go back and to redescend the peninsula via earth, with the contemporary block of the Sicilian ports".

"The umpteenth political inability is repeated once again - the general secretary of Trasportounito has denounced, Maurizio Longo - and institutional to program, to verify, to plan and to support the enterprises that, against a communitarian regulation who imposes the reduction of in transport marine the polluting emissions, must endure not only a heavy expenditure financial but also the failure of the policies stimulating (Marebonus) on the use of infrastructures of the sea".

"Such inadmissible increase, that it will release from January of the next year - the demand for an immediate encounter forwarded to minister De Micheli, the president of the Region Sicily, Musumeci and to the city council member to Falcone Transports has continued Longo announcing -, represents a hard sandstone financial that the road haulage enterprises cannot put up with. In theory these would have to overturn the greater cost on the fees of the services to the goods but, practically, taking into consideration the absence of protections, in the within of the free dealing of the parts, they will be forced to make oneself loaded with the greater costs with fallen back catastrophic financial institutions".

"If the choice is that of protecting the atmosphere - it has concluded Longo - is right that all make cargo of the costs for quota. Otherwise the emissions will return to be those of the trucks on freeways and roads of earth with the black-out of the greatest project enviromentalist who set up from the Italian and which snubbed transport from the institutions, also communitarian, that of the freeways of the sea"