The crisis remains a fiery hammer hitting the destinies of families and small and medium-sized businesses in Calabria. That increasingly fragile and poorly dressed embankment of the regional production system is progressively giving way under the pressure of costs that are no longer bearable. A negative spiral that originates from the Strait of Hormuz, from which daily upward impulses on commodity prices continue to arise, with a further increase in the cost of energy. It is no longer a cyclical pressure but has taken on the structural characteristics of a journey of no return. The 37th Confartigianato report gives the image of a system exposed to “New winds of war on the economy, the economic situation and the prospects for businesses”.
The first fault remains energy
In the forty-five days following the opening of the front in the Gulf, the price of gas rose 45.6% compared to February, while wholesale electricity exceeded pre-crisis levels by 20.6%. Diesel fuel, a decisive item for production and transport, remained 18.1% higher. A pressure which, through global chains, is transferred to materials and processes: metals and minerals grow by 23% on an annual basis, aluminum by 26.9%, while construction and manufacturing absorb increases in cement, steel, glass and ceramics.
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