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• ITALY STRIKE COSTS The five-day strike by Italian lorry

16th May 1987, Page 24
16th May 1987
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

drivers earlier this year cost farmers, industry and business in general more than L1,000 billion (2300 million).

Nearly 80% of the country's goods are moved by road — the highest proportion of any nation of the Continent.

Claudio Signorile, transport minister, blames the concentration of power in the bands of the lorry drivers on a short-sighted transport policy during the 1950s and 1960s, which poured resources into the development of the autostrada system.

He expects a major improvement in the railways between 1992 and 1995, and is pleased that an inter-modal system (using tracks with retractable wheels, that can ride on trains) is at last becoming tangible.

Financial Times.