Aspi, at the end of the month motorway toll rates will increase by 1.50%
Price increases comingnow it’s up to motorway toll tariffsa increase of1.50%. The announcement was made by the CEO Roberto Tomasi. THE prices have stopped since 2018 and at this moment the company is also facing “an increase in material costs ranging from 20 to 30% on average“.
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As for the concern about the increase in the cost of raw materials, Tomasi reiterates: “We believe it is necessary have great optimism to be able to keep And support the country’s economy. We are one of the national champions that this operation must carry out with great determination, so it is a signal to the Tuscany region and the country system that Autostrade per l’Italia intends to continue investing in the country’s infrastructure “.
“We have the goal of opening as many construction sites as possible. I believe that in this period no one can have any doubts about the importance of infrastructures in general, whether they are road, energy, water as we are seeing dramatically in these hours”, said Tomasi.
“To build infrastructures – declared the CEO of Aspi – we need in some ways vision, the ability to imagine what future generations need, and perhaps we should learn a little from our parents since we can give a little to our children and our grandchildren “.
Highways, how tariffs change
There company does not deliberately decide. With the Genoa decreeissued after the tragedy of the bridge Morandi which has put the issue of improving infrastructures in the foreground, the determination of motorway tariffs in fact follows a very specific procedure.
The concessionaire company, in this case Autostrade per l’Italia, does not can apply the increases without having the‘ok dell’Art, the Transport Regulation Authority. Currently, according to what leaks from sources of the Ministry of Infrastructure and as confirmed by Autostrade itself, an interview is underway between the offices of the dicastery with Aspi.
According to the provisions of the law, the changes in tolls are in fact ordered by Art on the basis of an investigation carried out by Mims. The offices of the Ministry have asked the concessionaire company for the elements necessary to carry out the preliminary activity which provides for a detailed analysis of the investments made and expects to receive these data to complete the investigation and send the dossier on the table of Art.
It is atAuthority that would ultimately decide according to the price cap method that it has decided to apply to all dealerships. It is a calculation method that provides for an increase in tariffs but following service improvements and interventions on the network, followed by a progressive decrease when investments begin to be amortized.
The 1 January lasthad also been confirmed for 2022 the tariffs in force on the motorways managed by the companies for which the updating / revision of the concession relationship was in progress. Each variation must in fact be applied exclusively to the definition of new contracts which must implement the tariff regime provided by the Transport Regulatory Authority, and which precisely includes the price cap.
The same president ofNicola Zaccheto Authority, in an interview released last summer, however, he guaranteed that “any increases due to new investments in construction, only if made, as well as extraordinary maintenance on bridges, viaducts and tunnels, they will always be contained within predefined parameters in the Economic and Financial Plans “
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