Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have surprisingly announced a 24-hour strike by the employees of Ciane Spa, Augusta-based company founded in 1967 with operational headquarters in Genoa which provides bunkering services in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado and which in recent years has extended the service to the ports of La Spezia and Marina di Carrara. What is surprising is the motivation for the protest action, as the unions have said "strongly concerned about the consequences of the entry of a new company within the ports of Genoa and Savona, a takeover that could have serious repercussions on employment of the sector".

The new company in question is the Venetian Petromar Srl to which on 13 September 2022 it was issued by the Savona Port Authority the concession for the exercise of bunkering services to ships in the port and roadstead of Savona and Vado Ligure and that a similar concession deed was issued on May 15, 2023 by the Port Authority of Genoa in relation to the operation of the bunkering service in the port and in the roadstead of Genoa, both concession deeds lasting ten years.

What is surprising is the motivation for the strike: safeguard the employment of the sector endangered, evidently, by a private Venetian company which, with the workers and vehicles, will operate in the same market where The Sicilian private company employs its workers and means.

Filt, Fit and Uilt have announced that, in order to "urge interventions to protect the workers of Ciane", the strike, "without prejudice to the minimum rights guaranteed, the suspension of bunkering activities for the day of the 16 May".