Transport extends another 450 million aid to the sector in which it includes urban buses

The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda announced this Thursday that the Government is expanding the direct aid package for the road freight and passenger transport sector by another 450 million, in addition to the 450 already approved last month of March.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
16 July 2022 Saturday 23:07
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Transport extends another 450 million aid to the sector in which it includes urban buses

The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda announced this Thursday that the Government is expanding the direct aid package for the road freight and passenger transport sector by another 450 million, in addition to the 450 already approved last month of March.

On this occasion, as Sánchez explained, the urban buses that were left out in March and that have been pressing ever since to gain access to them will also be able to benefit from the new public aid package. As explained by Minister Sánchez, the amounts of aid at that time are repeated, which were 1,250 per truck, 950 euros per bus, 500 euros per van and 300 per light vehicle such as taxis, vtcs or ambulances.

The Minister of Transport has also announced that the Government, in line with the commitments it made with the sector after the mobilizations last Christmas, is working together with the National Committee for Road Transport (the organization that represents the main companies) in the definitive wording of the Transport Chain Law, to guarantee that the sector does not work below the cost of providing the service and that contracts are made in writing.

In general terms, this law replicates the one already approved for the food chain and establishes the obligation that all contracts be made in writing and measures that guarantee that no company or self-employed person is hired to carry out a job at a price lower than the costs that assume to do it. As in it "work is being done to ensure that the subcontracting chain is fair", the minister assured at a press conference

Raquel Sánchez has confirmed that the text of the new royal decree has also been agreed with the representatives of Platform, the organization that a few months ago put the distribution sector in check in its call for strikes and that said it did not feel represented by the National Committee of road transport.