Thirty-three European associations of the transports exhort the institutions to become account of the centrality of the field in order to face and to exceed the emergency



Thirty-three European associations of the transports and the logistics have thrown again the outcry of alarm of numerous national organizations of the field that echoes by now from days and that it exhorts the governments to become account of the central role that the section covers in allowing to face and to exceed the current phase of create emergency for the spread of the Covid-19 virus world-wise. In a combined official notice, today thirty-three the associations have newly evidenced that "the field of the transports has a crucial role to carry out in the supply of assets, in particular medicinal, sanitary devices, feed and other goods essential necessary in order to exceed this crisis. Moreover the field of the transports reveals a vital instrument in this moment in which many European citizens they are limited in their mobility".

The associations have exhorted the governments "to evidence the role key that the transports and the logistics carry out for the supply of essential assets in this critical period", "to emphasize that the transport infrastructures are with regard to critical infrastructures" and to manifest "respect and support to all the workers of the chain of supplying that the continuity of the transport services, the circulation of the goods and the essential produced ones allows, let alone the repatriation of the blocked citizens and carry out therefore an important role in helping the European citizens to exceed this crisis".

Moreover they have invited the Member States of the European Union "to allow the fluid crosswalk of the frontiers for the transport of goods, is inside of the EU that with Third-country", specifying that to such care thirty-three the associations totally support the creation of preferred lanes for the transport of the goods.

They have sped up also "to support the measures and the actions undertaken at the level of the EU and from the national governments in order to contain the spread of the Covid-19 and to invite the Member States to coordinate their answer to the Covid-19 and to follow the lines guide of the EU commission on the management of the frontiers".

They have restated also the importance "protect the health and safety of the workers of the transports, in particular by means of the access, let alone personal protective apparatus to structures sanitary, alimony and drinks clean and disinfected".

Moreover the associations have put in evidence that "the fields of the transports and the logistics are based on a physical force job" and have invited the EU commission and the Member States "to facilitate of mobility, comprised the repatriation of the workers of the field of the transports".

At last they have exhorted the political part "to support the resumption of the field of the transports that heavy is hit, to guarantee the future connectivity is for the passengers who for the goods and to revitalize the arteries of the home market as soon as the crisis is finished".

The official notice has been undersigned from associations A4E (Airlines for Europe), AIM (European Brands Association), ALICE (European Platform Technology), BPO (Baltic Ports Organisation), ARDAN (Solutions for innovation), CER (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies), CLECAT (European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services), COCERAL (European association for trade in cereals, rice, feedstuffs, oilseeds, olives oil, oils and fats and agrosupply), EBU (European Barge Union), ECASBA (European Community Association of Shipbrokers and Agents), ECSA (European Community Shipowners' Associations), EFIP (European Federation of Inland Ports), EIM (European Rail Infrastructure Managers), EMPA (European Maritime Pilots' Association), ERFA (European Rail Freight Association), ESC (European Shippers' Council), ESO (European Skippers' Organisation), ESPO (European Sea Ports Organisation), ETF (European Transport Workers' Federation), EuDA (European Dredging Association), FEPORT (Federation of Private Port Operators and Terminals), FERRMED (Association to improve Railfreight Transportation), FTA (Leading UK logistics), INE (Inland Navigation Europe), IWI (Inland Waterways International), IWT (European Inland Waterway Transport Platform), POLIS (European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solutions), SEA EUROPE (the voice of civil and naval [maritime technologies] industries in Europe), UETR (European Road Haulers Association), UIP (International Union of Wagon Keepers), UIRR (International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport), UNIFE (The European Rail Supply Industry Association) and UNISTOCK (European association of professional portside storekeepers for agribulk commodities).