Expensive fuel, truckers strike: the country is blocked, alarm for refueling
From the Sicily at the Calabriafrom the Puglia as far as Ravenna: the hauliers are determined to continue indefinitely protest launched at the weekend to cope with rising gas prices e Petroleum. “Travel increasingly expensive”, “unsustainable situation”, “fuel skyrocketing”, “increase in operating costs”: these are just some of the open knots. The decision of stop the trucks in fact, as a sign of protest, it comes after months of crisis between skyrocketing inflation and peak fuel. And now, with the advance of the war in Ukraine the risks become concrete alarms. The entire supply chain is on its knees. And the workers do arm wrestling to enforce their claims.
“We are not going to give up. In the last two months the situation has become unsustainable, the expensive diesel weighs on us by 20/30 percent. Being in the lowest part of Italy, in Sicily we are forced to pay the highest price. But it’s not just us Sicilians to arise. There category from Rome down is one powder magazineready to explode … “, he told the news agency Agi from Sicily Angelo Mottaowner with a couple of heavy vehicles, forced to bear the increase in the price of diesel.
“Up to now in almost one week of blockades and proteststhe traffic situation in the crucial road points it was at the limit: the passageways to the trucks carrying perishable goods were ensured, all the others stopped ”, he continued.
To the San Gregorio motorway exit in Cataniaheadquarters of the road hauliers’ presidium, even today vehicle traffic is slow. Trucks and tractors they poured into the streets and highways of the island, between Avola, Gela, Termini Imerese, Tremestieri etneo, Catania and in the vicinity of the Strait of Messina. These are autonomous groups of road hauliers protesting against the rise in fuel costs.
In recent days alongside the Sicilian transporters the president of the Vello Musumeci Region took sides. “This time we do not stop – he warnedand Motta – because we have already failed and throwing away a week of work is further damage. Someone has to listen to our requests“.
But also a Taranto the situation is no better: the hauliers spontaneously preside over the state road 106 and state road 100 stopping their vehicles at the edge of the roadway to protest against the expensive fuel and the increase in operating costs.
The vehicular traffic is slowed down and at the moment there are no blocks, but the situation – insiders say – could change with a escalation of protest in the absence of responses by the government. Sui still trucks are attached posters with the inscription: “The government did not understand the situation. This is the answer we have received. Let’s understand how much it costs to stop road transport in Italy. Taranto turns off the engines”.
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Dear-energy, the hauliers block traffic in Ravenna
Traffic was blocked yesterday Ravenna: starting from 7 a large number of vehicles stopped effectively blocking transit to the industrial area and port. In the city, traffic went haywire.
Only around 10 police intervention and carabinieri allowed to open some gates while a large number garrison of workers gathered in the Sapir parking lot.
A sit-in born “spontaneously, given the inconclusive discussions between trade union parties and the government. With these costs, our companies are at risk “, the protest organizers said.
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From Puglia we then arrive in Calabria. Here, too, the hauliers have activated safeguards on the large ones communication arteries of the region for protest the high prices which affects fuels and energy. The safeguards were activated in the province of Catanzaro on the state road 280 and, in particular, near the Settingiano junction, in two petrol stations and near the roundabout of the airport of Lamezia Terme.
TO Crotone the sit-in was organized near the roundabout in Passovecchiowhile similar initiatives are reported near the motorway junction of Pizzo Calabro (Vv) ea San Lucido (Cs) on state road 18. La protest takes place in a peaceful manner, even if there is no lack of slowdowns for road traffic. The initiative was promoted by the Calabrian Transport Companies Association (Aitic) which in recent days had announced its desire to demonstrate until a strike was announced.
“There situation in which Italian and Calabrian road haulage finds itself is with no way out – the promoters highlighted in a document – and it is not possible to see the light at the end of the tunnel, an unsustainable situation for small companies. Entrepreneurs to stay in the market, in the face of higher operating costs due not only to the increases, but also to the lack of regional infrastructure of primary importance such as roads, motorways, autoports and the low productivity of our territory, are forced to blackmail “.
Energy, rioting truckers: paralyzed companies, empty supermarkets
There protest of truckers consequently undermines the tightness of supplies. The alarm comes directly from Coldiretti Puglia who declared: “The Puglia is paralyzed by the strike of trucks with grain and corn freight ships that leave the port of Bari without having unloadedwhile whole platforms of vegetables, mushrooms, flowers and fruit crammed in trucks for hours have already been thrown away due to the blockage of the food distribution chain”.
According to Coldiretti ”there remains an autonomy of 5 days in the stables for feeding the animals then the corn stocks will be exhausted. With 85% of goods traveling on the road the strike of the trucks with the roadblocks provokes incalculable damage, from field to table – adds Coldiretti Puglia – with perishable products such as fruit, vegetables, mushrooms and flowers standing in the rotting warehouses and the real risk of empty shelves also due to the lack of supplies to the food industry forced to stop the processing plants “.
“The farm cells are literally ‘bursting’ with food that cannot reach the Italian logistics distribution platforms – underlines the agricultural abbreviation – with some trucks already loaded with perishable products stopped on the roads, with a strike now to the bitter end and the risk that the food will be irretrievably thrown away ”.
According to Coldiretti data, in Puglia the transport sector (34.6% of final consumption) is confirmed among other things as the most ‘energy-intensive’ sector and is characterized by a large use of liquid fuels which cover 93.9% of the sector’s consumption, based on MISE, Terna and Enea data. ” To suffer the effects of the increases – concludes Coldiretti – is the entire agri-food chain, from the fields to the processing industry to conservation and distribution ”.
“It is urgent to intervene against the wild road transport strike that broke out in the north of Bari, because the protest is now paralyzing the industry as well”, underlined the president of Confindustria Puglia and Bari and Barletta-Andria Trani. Sergio Fontana.
“In many mills, pasta factories and dairy industries in the Bari area – he explained – don Monday the production stops or goes to fits and starts. The mills are overloaded because they are unable to deliver the semolina and for this reason they are stopping the activity. Consequently, the pasta factories do not receive the raw material and suspend some production lines. “Other production lines, according to Fontana, are also failing.
“The most damaged industry is that of fresh food – he specifies – such as dairy products or animal feed, which cannot remain unsold for long without deteriorating. Meanwhile, stocks of raw materials are also decreasing for the durable goods industry, such as those of mechanics which, from what we know, can last for another ten days on average, after which several companies will have to stop production “.
For Confindustria Puglia, “We need to restore order, opening a constructive dialogue. Expensive fuel is a serious problem, but it must be faced in compliance with the rules. The demands of the road hauliers are right, but the protest modalities are not. There is no strike in this. way”. Hence the request to the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Transport of find solutions to “avoid degeneration”.
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