The executive committee of Unatras, the unitary coordination of the National Freight Transport Federations, convened today in Rome it decided to proclaim the national shutdown of services and of all transport activities, giving a mandate to the office of the Presidency to define the days and methods of implementation of the which will be established in compliance with the times dictated by the self-regulation code of the sector strike.

In a note, it is emphasized that "this is the only and inevitable possible decision, awaited by the category, in front of to the deafening silence of the government in this dramatic phase due to of the high costs of fuel, which are in fact determining the impossibility of continuing the transport activity goods for thousands of Italian companies. The measures taken so far from the executive have proved insufficient to cover the extent of the phenomenon and, paradoxically, have ended up damaging professional road transport which, not only guarantees continuity of the transport of goods, but has invested with a view to environmental sustainability and road safety. È It is inconceivable that the representative organizations belonging to Unatras, which have always held a profile of responsibility towards the institutions and the country despite the repeated cries have not even been summoned by the government to start a discussion on the very serious situation that the sector".

Specifying that "Italian road transport, which has 100 thousand companies for 500 thousand workers, decides to stop to avoid much worse damage continuing to travel at a loss", the Nota specifies that, in order to avert the devastating economic effects that this drastic decision entails, the Unatras coordination believes It is essential that the Government acts urgently to: of the decree implementing the tax credit already provided for and compensation for non-reimbursement of excise duties amounting to 200 euros every 1000 litres of diesel purchased; interventions in support of the liquidity of companies such as the suspension of payments contributions and taxes; the implementation of regulatory measures, the strengthening of contractual instruments and the immediate compensation of excise duty refunds; the adoption of an aid framework at the European level".

The note concludes by specifying that Unatras, "in representation of almost the entire category, hopes that isolated forms of self-organized protest converge in the appropriate initiatives that will be implemented in accordance with the of the law".

Meanwhile, Trasportiunito, an association of road transport not member of Unatras, confirmed the five-day detention of road transport starting from 24 hours next Sunday and until April 24. "The increase in the cost of fuel - denounced Maurizio Longo, secretary general of Trasportiunita - has caused a crisis of unprecedented gravity to explode precedents; and this happens in the total absence of the institutions and the competent ministry; paradoxically the only institution that has paid attention to road transport is the strike commission of essential public services which has so tried to put obstacles in the way of a stop that is the mirror of an entrepreneurship now suffocated by debts and started inexorably on the road to bankruptcy".