Second day of inconvenience throughout Italy for the principals of road hauliers who are protesting about the expensive fuel. Trucks, vans and even tractors stopped at entrances and on highways, but no big signs on the banners. It is the protest that started from the “base” of the trucking world of Southern Italy, organized between social networks and chat groups, which led the demonstrators to block various arteries of the country. Along the Campania motorway sections, the truck drivers’ mobile blocks, guards on the A1, near the Naples Nord barriers and on the A30 Caserta-Salerno, at the Mercato San Severino (Salerno) barrier. This morning the trucks had blocked the Caianello tollbooth along the Caserta section of the A1.
But the blocks have been there for a whileThe protest in Ravenna blocked transit to the industrial and port area all morning, while traffic in the city went haywire. Blocks also in Sicily , in Palermo and Caltanissetta. In Calabria, dozens of hauliers organized a sit-in this morning near the A2 junctions of Gioia Tauro and Rosarno. In Puglia , on the 613 Lecce-Brindisi state road, six trucks traveled at a slow pace a stretch of 10 km, creating traffic slowdowns, without however major inconvenience to traffic. In the Taranto area, several road hauliers have assembled a garrison on state roads 106 and 100, receiving the solidarity of some local mayors.
According to the president of the Cna, Dario Costantini, who met with the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Alessandro Morelli, the serious increase in the price of diesel has “become unsustainable: for each vehicle about 13 thousand a year of higher costs and for methane vehicles the increase is even more marked “.
From the Region of Sicily comes the appeal to Palazzo Chigi of the governor of the island Musumeci who asked for an urgent meeting with the government. Concern about Confesercenti
blocks, due to the impact on the food sector, production and prices of the supply chain: “They risk impacting, less than one might think, on the production and prices of the food supply chain – so Daniele Erasmi, President of Fiesa Confesercenti – “the production difficulties of the food chain companies could emerge, starting from the southern regions, where the protest is most localized and for the territory with a strong vocation for agricultural production”. Difficulty that in the short term, according to the trade association , would soon reflect on the supply chains starting with those gravitating around wheat, bread and pasta “. La Molisana: stop production, we support hauliers
“Production will be suspended from tomorrow because La Molisana supports the haulers’ strike” against expensive fuel. This was announced by La Molisana, the Italian pasta producer, specifying that a date has not yet been set for the resumption of production. Puglia, from the municipality of Cerignola hot meals to 300 truck drivers
There are 300 trucks parked near the entrances to Cerignola (Foggia), in protest against expensive fuel. The demonstration, according to what the hauliers have made known, will go on until adequate measures are taken against the price increase. The Municipality of Cerignola this evening made available hot meals and water: “chemical toilets are arriving in the areas concerned”, said in the evening the deputy mayor of Cerignola, Maria Dibisceglia, after meeting the demonstrators.
