Roadblocks continue in the South: the hauliers spent the night at the Nola toll booth on the A30 Caserta-Salerno.
The Sicilian Road Transport Committee: "We do not support any road block or garrison, we are peaceful".
This afternoon the category will meet in Milan with the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, who meanwhile announces: "Immediate disbursement of allocated funds, then additional resources".
Protests continue from hauliers in the South, who are awaiting answers from the category's meeting with the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, scheduled for this afternoon in Milan.
Meanwhile, the head of the department promises: "Immediate disbursement of allocated funds, then additional resources."
During the night, truck drivers set up a garrison at the Nola toll booth, in the province of Naples, on the A30, Caserta-Salerno.
There are also indefinite road blocks at the Avellino Est motorway toll booth and traffic is also paralyzed near the Mercato San Severino barrier (Salerno), towards Caserta.
Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, speaking this morning on Rtl 102.5, immediately announces the disbursement of the funds already allocated for road transport, followed by additional measures.
"We are working as hard as we can to give concrete answers today. The 430 million that are already in the budget, therefore already allocated, are available".
Then he specifies: "To overcome bureaucratic obstacles, we have made it a point to start disbursing them as early as this week, because many companies cannot wait. Then there will certainly be additional resources. There will also be cash availability for the so-called Marebonus, the result of a European regulation that is out of this world and out of time. Today I will have two tables: in the morning with the national acronyms and in the afternoon with some local representatives".
There is anticipation for Salvini's meeting with the category in Sicily too.
The Sicilian Road Transport Committee (Cts), which proclaimed the stoppage of the vehicles which has been ongoing for five days, "does not carry out and will not in any way support road blocks or controls aimed at preventing the transit of those who choose to work" and awaits the outcome of the meeting to decide whether or not to revoke the protest.
The CTS "reiterates that its protest action is limited exclusively to the failure to move semi-trailers from ships", we read in a note.
"While sharing the emergency linked to the cost of diesel - continues the CTS - the organization has chosen not to join other demonstrations to avoid exploitation and overlapping of different requests. We have nothing against fellow artisans, the so-called masters, nor against other categories of workers such as farmers or fishermen. However, our companies face different structural problems. We want to deal exclusively with our points to ensure maximum clarity and not generate confusion".
The detention in the Sicilian ports "is taking place in an absolutely peaceful, civil and strictly within company properties" and "will be revoked as soon as Minister Salvini formally signs the commitments made".
Meanwhile, protests by Sicilian hauliers continue at the barrier at the Tremestieri and San Gregorio junctions: the drivers have said that today they will wait to see what Transport Minister Matteo Salvini says before removing the blocks.
If the meeting is successful they will leave, otherwise the protest will continue.
Meanwhile in the center of Messina almost all supermarkets have a shortage of goods and waste collection has also stopped in many municipalities in the Ionian area.
The door-to-door service for the collection of undifferentiated waste will not be carried out in at least 15 centres: Giardini Naxos, Letojanni, Gaggi, Gallodoro, Castelmola, Mongiuffi Melia, Forza d'Agrò, Sant'Alessio Siculo, S. Teresa di Riva, Savoca, Casalvecchio Siculo, Antillo, Pagliara, Mandanici and Scaletta Zanclea.
The protest by hauliers against the increase in fuel prices, carried out at the motorway barriers in Messina and Catania with blockades, demonstrations and mobilisations, also affects some essential public services.
Protests also continue in Puglia: at dawn a procession of dozens of tractors and trucks crossed the streets on the outskirts of Bitonto, in the Bari area, along provincial road 231, arriving in the city where a protest against high fuel prices is underway.
Farmers and hauliers met wearing placards and displaying banners expressing their discontent and explaining the reasons for the protest.
"They increase petrol and bread, they give us the police. This is their democracy" and again "People, don't stand by and watch. The high cost of living and the increase in petrol are also your business".
Words written on cardboard worn as vests.
"No weapons, more school, work, healthcare. All-out strike" reads another sign.
On the tractors there are banners with the words: "Did you want young farmers? Now listen to us" and again "Stop unfair imports. Let's protect our territory".
The appeal is to the institutions and citizens because "it is time to make our voice heard".
The protest, which began at seven in the morning and will cross the city, was organized to "ask for concrete interventions" to deal with "increasingly heavy costs, growing expenses and reduced margins".
The demonstration will continue throughout the day and will end with a demonstration in front of the Municipality.
The hauliers are also protesting in Vallo di Diano, in the province of Salerno, where protests have been underway since the morning at the Polla, Atena Lucana, Sala Consilina and Padula-Buonabitacolo junctions of the A2 Mediterranean.
There are slowdowns in traffic, while cars are allowed to pass.
The police forces and Anas personnel are present at the junctions, engaged in traffic protection and control activities.
The mobilization also affects other points in the province of Salerno, with protests at the Eboli, Contursi, Campagna and Sicignano degli Alburni motorway junctions.
In the afternoon, a patrol is also planned at the Buccino junction of the Sicignano-Potenza motorway junction.
Trucks also stopped in Pontecagnano Faiano, at the exit of the ring road, near the roundabout, where severe slowdowns have been reported and motorists are advised to be cautious.
