A truce under the aegis of the government. Transporters, manufacturers and distributors have been opposing each other for ten days to find out which of them would bear the additional cost deplored by transport companies since the beginning of the epidemic. At the heart of the debates: taking into account the cost of empty returns from carriers. Indeed, in normal times, a truck makes a first journey with food products and returns to its point of origin with another load, of auto parts or materials for the building industry for example. But since the cessation of a large number of activities, carriers have returned empty and sought to share this additional cost with manufacturers.
This is what STEF, a transporter of costs, for example, tried to do unilaterally, causing an outcry from the shippers. " The rate increases that some carriers wanted to impose reached 8%, despite the lower cost of diesel, " said an industrialist.
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