Confindustria Etna, Sicilian road transport stopped from 16 to 22 October

Sicilian road transport companies will stop vehicles from 00.01 on 16 October to midnight on 22 October. The decision, as announced by the Transport section of Confindustria Catania, was "taken unanimously at the end of months of institutional discussion which did not produce the expected responses".

At the basis of the protest, we read in a note, there is "an economic condition that has become unsustainable". The average monthly price of automotive diesel recorded by Mase increased by around 0.35 euros per liter compared to February, exceeding 2.16 euros in September. For a single heavy vehicle traveling 100,000 kilometers a year, the burden exceeds 8,000 euros in eight months. To this, Confindustria reminds us, is added, for island companies only, the reversal on maritime tariffs of the charges of the ETS system and of the fuel adjustments applied by shipowners: the same trip is affected twice.