Sardinian companies held hostage by the Tyrrhenian Sea: "Unsustainable transport costs"

Double bloodletting, there and back. For the Island's businesses that face beyond the Tyrrhenian Sea, survival is a daily adventure full of obstacles and difficulties.

Buying goods from the rest of the world or exporting them to other markets is in fact a challenge that costs a lot. Very expensive. An expense that weighs first of all on company balance sheets, limiting profits and development potential. But that often and inevitably falls on the pockets of Sardinians.

"The costs to bring goods to Sardinia are approximately 35% higher than the ordinary ones", confirms Alessandro Mancini, manager of the winery of the same name who, to bottle thousands of hectolitres of wine, needs the same number of glass bottles, to be ordered in the country and brought by ferry to Gallura.

"A blow both on the way there and on the way back, when we have to sell our wine already packaged," says the entrepreneur. "It is easy to imagine how much this can limit our competitiveness."

A container loaded on a ferry costs so much that companies made in Sardinia have to do somersaults to make ends meet.

The full article by Luca Mascia on L'Unione Sarda on newsstands, on the app and on the digital edition