Joint transport and UNATRAS, yes and no to the immediate strike of road transport

The acronym of the sector to bite the brake the most is Transportunite that announced a shutdown of companies of road haulage at national level 'due to force major» starting today, provided that the association union specified should not be considered a strike nor a specific claim, but a targeted initiative to coordinate demonstrations on the state of extreme necessity of the sector. In a letter sent to the Presidency of the Council, to the Minister and Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Mobility Sustainable and the President of the Guarantee Commission in Strikes, Transportunited explained that the suspension of services it has become inevitable also to protect companies and prevent the exasperated market conditions brought about by the record increase in fuel prices, translate into advantages for others subjects in the transport sector, or in charges for obligations contracts that companies in the logistics chain are no longer able to guarantee.

UNATRAS, the union that brings together the acronyms of road transport Fai Conftrasporto, Fiap, Fita Cna, Sna Casartigiani, Unitai, Lega delle Cooperatives and Confcooperative, believes instead that to implement a protest action should be waited at least until Saturday next, waiting for the results of the meeting with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility to be held tomorrow, when the question of increase in diesel prices. UNATRAS has specified that all member associations, representing more than 90% of companies of Italian road transport, will evaluate the outcome of the meeting and only then they will decide whether and what initiatives to implement in addition to those already scheduled for March 19. UNATRAS has instead stigmatized "any initiative that should be put in place before March 15, without respecting and / or in discrepancy of the methods communicated to the Strike Guarantee Commission. Not only would it be in violation of the law - pointed out UNATRAS in a note - but it could limit the freedom of those who have decided to carry out its activity regularly. Therefore those who wanted to implement it would assume all the responsibilities. For this reason, given some ambiguous signs that are arriving, we will take action to initiate all precautionary actions to ensure the free movement of goods'.

Instead for ALIS, the Logistics Association of Intermodality Sustainable, these protest actions are not at all appropriate: "even if the increase in energy prices represents a evident critical issues for entire supply chains - said the deputy president of ALIS, Marcello Di Caterina - we consider it our duty distance themselves from these wicked acts and counterproductive, especially considering the very delicate phase international geopolitics that we are facing because of the war in Ukraine and the harsh economic and economic consequences supply that families and the whole of society are living". "ALIS - said Di Caterina - announces firmly that it will not adhere to the suspension of the services of road haulage, favoring on the contrary throughout Italy the proper and regular performance of all transport services and intermodal logistics and continuing to promote dialogue as main tool to find quick and concrete solutions to critical issues encountered by the sector».

"It is necessary - continued the vice president of ALIS - that the entire transport and logistics sector brings out the own sense of responsibility, without aggravating further the situation. For weeks we have been working on the discussion in the appropriate parliamentary forums and with the executive, in particular with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Mobility Sustainable that is demonstrating maximum openness to dialogue constructive. We will continue in this direction and promote moments institutional discussion also at the LETEXPO event that will take place at Veronafiere next week, from Wednesday 16 to Saturday March 19, and which will see the participation of numerous representatives of the government and ministerial institutions, and parliamentarians'.