Sectoral food suppliers of food suppliers reported the increase in prices for domestic and foreign transportation prices. In addition, they declared a shortage of free transport. According to various estimates of representatives of the sphere, the rise in transport prices reached 160 percent, Kommersant writes.
Head of the National Meat Association Sergey Yushin said that the cost of transportation on average increased by 10-11 percent compared to last year, but this growth depends on the direction and from the season. In his opinion, there are difficulties with empty transport that arose, among course, due to the care of players from this market.
In the potato union, they talked about the rise in price of transportation in some directions at least 20-30 percent in relation to 2020, in some cases the prices were twice. This tendency was explained by the lack of refrigerated transport, as well as the departure of drivers from the CIS countries from Russia.
The Association of Enterprises of the Confectionery Industry “ACST” faced with an increase in transportation prices by 10-15 percent among domestic destinations, and by 24-160 percent – on international.
At the same time, in the National Association of Truck Automobile Transport “Gruzavtotrans” emphasized that the rise in price did not exceed 15 percent and became the first in the last ten years. The head of the organization, Vladimir Matyagin, stressed that the increase does not cover all the necessary costs: otherwise the carriage would rise in price by 100 percent.
It is noted that the Ministry of Agriculture is monitored by the current situation and develops possible outputs from the position along with the Ministry of Industry and Technology and the Ministry of Transport.
Previously, the largest manufacturer of Nestle products warned about price increases. The company stressed that in the event of a cost of transportation, it cannot do anything.