Almost two years after the start of the pandemic, freight costs are still above 10 thousand dollars, which is three or four times more than their standard price. An unsustainable rise in prices, which could jeopardize the much-desired economic recovery. The Filiera Italia Foundation raises the alarm and writes a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to denounce the exponential increase in the cost of transport and request the activation of an antitrust investigation in Europe in with the global companies of container ships.
What worries companies in the agri-food sector is “the scarce availability of containers, some practices of operators such as” blank sailing “and the cancellation without notice of shipments that strongly penalize Italian exports”, reads the document. According to Filiera Italia “there is a highly speculative and unjustified behavior on the part of the main shipping companies responsible for the world trade in containers”. Worldwide, maritime transport is a highly concentrated sector, with the top three operators alone holding 45.3% of the market, while the top ten manage over 80% of the volumes. “An indisputable oligopoly – claim from the Italian Supply Chain – which is causing enormous economic damage to businesses”.
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