Inflation, high fuel prices and the freezing of prices for many school transport contracts have led to the disappearance of 384 companies in 2022.
The sector of road passenger transport is experiencing a worrying situation company closures, in recent years, after the pandemic. Investments by mobility companies in security measures and in the acquisition of new unitsthey have come across some negative elements that have ended up remove 384 companies from the map in the last year.
The inflationthe high fuel prices and the price freeze for many school transport contracts have caused the disappearance of 12% of the total sector, according to data from the ‘Road passenger transport observatory. Supply and Demand 2023′, prepared by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. That is why the employer, anetraurgently demand from the Government a crash plan.
From the association of SMEs in the bus passenger transport sector (with 850 companies associates) considers it essential, for their survival, to “overcome the anachronism that not being able to put up for sale the remaining places of discretionary services and the sale of seats for the intermediate stops of the international lines”, thus stated the president of Anetra, louis pedrerowhich calls on the Government and the different parliamentary groups to be sensitive to this situation.
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pedrero considers the “processing of the sustainable mobility law to be a great opportunity, to put an end to an anachronism that society does not understand or fit in with a sustainable and ecological mobility model. We are facing a outdated law of the year 1987, of the last century”. He also acknowledges that “the same situation occurs in the case of Spanish SMEs and international lines. In almost all of Europe is possible the sale of tickets for intermediate stops on international lines; in Spain it is forbidden siding with Romania and Hungary, and against European regulations”.
The association calls for “a ‘crash plan’ to save the sector and reactivate bus transportationwhat’s notor stop losing travelers since 2009going from 45 million passengers to 30 million in 2019, according to the Ministry. We demand the modification of the legal framework to be able to carry out the sale to the market of buses that travel with empty seats “by legal imperative & rdquor ;. And they regret that “car sharing continues to thrive without any barriers, the shared bus only finds limitations”. The president of the association asks the executive “to oxygen balloon that the sector needs to stop the bleeding of destruction of companies and jobs”.