Incentives and contributions for everyone: on the list of the Ministry of Infrastructure there are Friuli, Veneto, Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Sicily: 21 million euros to reduce the costs of freight transport.
But in the "Sea Modal Shift" decree launched two months ago there are no Sardinian routes. Excluded from a possible reduction in tariffs.
Far from compensating for the disadvantages of insularity: this time it is precisely the condition of being an island - therefore not connected to the other regions by a road network - that determines the exclusion. Because the objective of the Government's measure is to "decongest the road network and reduce the impact of the transport of goods by road". Which is evidently affected by Sicilian hauliers - who just need to cross the Strait of Messina to access the peninsula's motorways - but not the Sardinian ones.
In the list published in the Official Journal there are connections Palermo-Civitavecchia, Catania-Salerno and Catania-Genoa, for example, but no lines based in Sardinia.
Michele Ruffi
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