Moretto (Fedespedi): we turn an appeal to our enterprises customers in order to invite them not to unload on our section the burdens of the lockdown



"The emergency Coronavirus has confirmed the strategicità of the logistics, but the shipment enterprises cannot alone support the burden of the lockdown. Without normative conditions and adapted financial institutions, we risk the block to the logistic system". It has denounced Silvia Moretto, president of Fedespedi, the federation of the shipment enterprises, emphasizing that in the current conditions the logistic system will not be able to guarantee over a long time span own activity to the service of the economy of the Country concerning the serious operating difficulties due to the congestionamento of the logistic nodes joins to a liquidity crisis financial institution that risks to undermine the activity of the enterprises of the field of the supply chain.

Moretto has remembered that also in this exceptional conjuncture of suspension of the not essential activities, postponed with a new one I on 13 April Prime Minister's decree of the ministers until, the supply chain she continues with responsibility sense to work to the service of the economy of the Country based on how much having from you decree governmental, but cannot entirely support the burdens of the lockdown. "We are recognized between the essential activities - it has emphasized - but not are the conditions for being able to guarantee our service".

"As we have already denounced - he has specified the president of Fedespedi - is necessary that the government clarifies that the storage activity is allowed for all the enterprises, also those in which the production process it is firm. This is fundamental because our operators can continue the activities of delivery and withdrawal of the goods: the hub harbour and airport is near the level of the maximum ability to control of the container. If we reach the level of saturation will release ulterior burdens at the expense of the goods. To this financial institution joins to the worry for the liquidity crisis that has already serious consequences on the business budgets. The enterprises customers - it has specified Moretto - ask delays for payment and the expirations that we cannot come to an agreement. We are operators of the logistics and credit institutions and we cannot work without being rewarded"

"The data analyzed from Centro Studi Fedespedi - it has continued Moretto - show a contraction of the GDP Italian between 4% and 7% in 2020. The contraction of the commercial exchanges, moreover, impatta seriously in terms of turnover on all the sections of the logistic row. As evidenced from Centro Studi di Confetra, the Italian general Confederation of the transports and the logistics, in the 2020 a contraction of the volumes of goods is previewed enlivened of 20-25%. It is absolutely necessary that the enterprises our customers as expected pay the services that have activated with we and that we have carried to term also in this exceptional conjuncture, and in the conditions demanded from the governmental dispositions. Today they are already calculated beyond 2,5 billion euros of unsolved credits (Centro Studi Confetra) that they are putting to risk the survival of our enterprises in the short term. Ours it is a field labour intensive that employs 50,000 assigned: the companies must, in the first place, be able to pay the job of the people, that they continue to feeding every day the circulation of the goods in our system Country".

"We turn, therefore - it has concluded the president of the Fedespedi - an appeal to our enterprises customers in order to invite them not to unload on our section the burdens of the lockdown, aware of the difficulty that this emergency involves for all the economic woven one of the Country. We ask the government, moreover, to supply to the field all the operating guarantees and financial institutions because the enterprises can continue own activity".