Dozens of hauliers guarding the customs gate in the port of via Roma in Cagliari, and the industrial one in Giorgino, to protest against the speculation on fuel prices that are strangling the sector.
Diesel is now at 2.35 euros per liter and the profit margins for road haulage, particularly with regard to owners and small businesses, are in fact no longer there. A delegation from the group of road hauliers went to the Region to ask to meet the Regional Councilor for Transport Giorgio Todde, to whom the spontaneous committee that does not belong to sector organizations wanted to present a platform of claims, but the member of the Solinas Council was engaged outside Cagliari.
The truck drivers handed over their claims platform to the regional councilor for work, Alessandra Zedda, and decided to keep the garrison in the two Cagliari airports indefinitely, night after night, until they can illustrate their requests to the councilor for transport. address to the central government. Moreover, Councilor Todde had already met them on Friday and today he spoke by phone with them, while his colleague Zedda was meeting with the representatives of the road hauliers, to whom the Region expresses its closeness. The non-loading of the goods, precisely because of the protest of the hauliers, led to the cancellation of a connection by a freight ship from Cagliari, and it is possible that it will also happen in the next few days.
"Not long ago a full tank of diesel for a tractor cost 800 euros, now we are at around 1300", complain the hauliers, who now have practically no profit margin from their work. These increases then have repercussions on the prices of all goods, including food, transported by vehicles that consume one liter of fuel every three kilometers. Presidia are underway in various places in Sardinia, including Monastir and Siliqua, but there are no roadblocks or inconveniences in boarding passenger ferries. But goods do not travel, even if there are no supply problems on the island, especially as regards food products.