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Assarmatori, the expensive energy will impose an increase in the cost of ferry tickets
Rossi: this will have an inflationary effect, we cannot hide it, but neither can we expect the service providers to take charge of these increases
March 16, 2022
'Adjust freight and tariffs, and thus the cost of tickets - warned the president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina - it will be an obligatory choice to avoid the suspension of those maritime services to and from the islands, which also in the hardest months of the pandemic they guaranteed however both territorial continuity, both passenger transport and goods, including supplies which are essential, especially for the Sardinia».
"Adjust freight and tariffs - continued Messina - represents a painful but necessary choice that will impact on the entire production chain up to the final consumer. But the consequences of a stop to services would be much more dramatic, as easily understood, in particular for the island population and for all the related industries, including tourism, for the what these links are lifeblood".
With regard to the dear energy, "it is the case of remember - denounced the president of Assarmatori - how the our companies are still waiting for the refreshments provided by various legislative measures to limit the consequences economic of the health emergency, and now they are in a to face, from a position of further fragility, the consequences of a new emergency".
The Secretary-General of Assarmatori, Alberto Rossi, who on Monday, in audition at the Environment Committee of the Chamber, as part of the process of conversion into law of the Energy decree-law, he stressed that 'the territorial continuity of passengers and goods is a right enshrined in the Constitution that is in danger of being lost: for shipowners - said Rossi - the use of fuels fossils is inescapable, we are somehow prisoners of it, having no concretely viable alternatives. Transport terrestrial since 2006 benefits from an automatic correction of the tariffs in line with the trend in the cost of fuel, we believe that such a measure is also necessary for that maritime, especially for ships used in connections to and from the islands. This will have an inflationary effect, not we can hide it, but we cannot even pretend that they are the service providers to take charge of these increases: not in fact, we are talking about a minimal difference, but a substantial one doubling of the costs related to the bunker".
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'Adjust freight and tariffs, and thus the cost of tickets - warned the president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina - it will be an obligatory choice to avoid the suspension of those maritime services to and from the islands, which also in the hardest months of the pandemic they guaranteed however both territorial continuity, both passenger transport and goods, including supplies which are essential, especially for the Sardinia».
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
