Expensive fuel: Trasportiunito, from Monday stop trucking

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Starting from next Monday, March 14, the trucking companies will suspend their services nationwide ‘due to force majeure’ “and that is the explosion of fuel costs. Transport together which specifies that this is neither a strike nor a specific claim, but an initiative aimed at coordinating the demonstrations on the state of extreme need in the sector.

“The suspension of services has become inevitable – underlines a letter sent by Trasportiunito to the Prime Minister, the Minister and Deputy Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility and the President of the Guarantee Commission in Strikes – also to protect companies and prevent that the exasperated market conditions, determined by the record rise in fuel prices, translate into advantages for other subjects in the transport sector, or into charges for contractual obligations that the companies in the logistics chain are no longer able to guarantee “.

The protests in the transport sector called by some trade organizations could immediately lead to a further serious surge in retail prices. He denounces it the Codacons, commenting on the stop to transport services announced today by Trasportiunito. “The road transport block will have direct effects on the community, suspending the supplies of goods in the commercial sector and leading to a surge in retail price lists in shops and supermarkets – says the president Carlo Rienzi – An inevitable consequence, considering that the 85% of goods sold in Italy travel by road, and a further damage for consumers, exhausted like companies by expensive fuel “. “In this situation, a shameful inaction comes from the Government, and it is not clear what awaits the executive to immediately cancel the VAT on petrol and diesel and reduce excise duties, also in consideration of the enormous earnings collected by the state coffers from November to today. thanks to the taxation on fuels and the growth of price lists at the pump “concludes Rienzi.

Source: Ansa

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