Associations in the maritime, port and logistics sector Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica, Confitarma, Fedespedi and Uniport have asked the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport the start of a dialogue concrete aimed at determining the identification of correct Application indications of Law 105/2025 which regulates the timing waiting time for loading and unloading goods. This is a following a letter received from the associations of road haulage Aliai, Assotir, Cna Fita, Confartigianato Transport, Lega Cooperative and Trasportiunita who called for the attention of operators in the logistics chain and institutions competent for the strict application of the law.

In the letter, the road haulage representatives recalled that the rule provides that the related exemption period waiting for vehicles to be able to carry out loading operations and unloading, to be calculated from the time of the carrier's arrival at the place loading or unloading of the goods until the departure of the same, is equal to ninety minutes for each operation and that, beyond this threshold, compensation of €100 is provided for each hour or fraction of an hour of additional waiting.

Pointing out that "these provisions have a and constitute a fundamental safeguard to protect the regularity and professional safety of hauliers and the economic sustainability of companies in the sector", The road haulage associations have warned that, in the absence of of concrete responses, are ready to take action to mobilization and protest in defense of the rights of companies and road haulage workers.

In the request to the Ministry, Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica, Confitarma, Fedespedi and Uniport recalled that they had already reported to the ministry "the emergence of widespread problems in every context of the logistics due to a non-univocal interpretation and discrepancies indications for the application of the rule in question, from which the arising from disputes, discrasias of behaviors, slowdowns in operational activities and prejudice in relations between the different players in the supply chain. We reiterate everyone's interest - the letter continues - so that certainty can be guaranteed of contractual relationships, balance and long-term responsibility the entire logistics and transport chain. We need, each towards its own area of representation of an intervention by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport aimed at ensure uniform application in compliance with the principles of efficiency and collaboration that characterize the contributions between industry, transport and logistics".