While in Friday’s meeting the Government put on the table a package of measures to lighten the costs weighing on road transport and the employers’ associations decided to revoke the national stoppage of trucks from 24 to 29 May, the CGIA of Mestre takes stock of the sector after three months of crisis of expensive diesel.
The price of diesel at the pump, which soared with the conflict, rose from an average value of 1.676 to 1.986 euros per litre: +18.5%. Despite the 20 cent cut in excise duties introduced by the Government on 19 March, in the first twelve weeks of the crisis, freight road transport incurred an extra cost of 2.1 billion euros. The most significant increases concerned Lombardy (257.9 million euros), Campania (251.6) and Sicily (232.2), while Calabria was close to 100 million (99.6 and ninth place among the regions).
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