{"id":2129,"date":"2024-12-27T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T14:33:59","slug":"cotraport-aims-to-increase-rates-in-2025-to-give-value-to-the-provision-of-its-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/cotraport-aims-to-increase-rates-in-2025-to-give-value-to-the-provision-of-its-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotraport aims to increase rates in 2025 to \u201cgive value\u201d to the provision of its services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barcelona. Cotraport director Juan Pozo tells Diario del Puerto that \u201cwe are in the process of making our clients aware that price is not the most important thing, but rather the good service offered by our partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working with rates very similar to those of 15 years ago and in the same period the cost of living has increased by around 32%\u201d<\/p>\n

The director of Cotraport believes that \u201ca consensus is beginning to be noted among the road transport companies linked to the port of Barcelona on the need to increase rates to improve the conditions of our drivers and reverse the trend of loss of talent in the sector.\u201d In this sense, Pozo assures that \u201cbefore being a driver in the Port of Barcelona was a privilege and lately we have a hard time retaining drivers because they leave for other companies outside the port area that offer better conditions,\u201d and adds that \u201cuntil now we are working with rates very similar to those of 15 years ago and in the same period the cost of living has increased by around 32%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond the rate increase, Cotraport also plans to unify the prices for radius 1 and radius 2 in 2025. Thus, there are currently rates for journeys of up to 15 kilometres and another for journeys of up to 40 kilometres and the intention of the cooperative of independent transporters is to integrate them all within a single rate to compensate for the hours of waiting in terminals and depots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Congestion<\/h2>\n
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After a worrying start to the year as a result of the blockage of routes using the Suez Canal, the Port of Barcelona began to see an increase in traffic from March onwards, once the shipping companies reorganised their services. This has led the terminals to extreme situations, having to work above their capacity for many months.<\/p>\n

Faced with this situation, Cotraport is asking those responsible for the Port Authority and the terminals for solutions to reduce waiting times, which increase the stress of drivers and reduce the number of daily trips they can make. In fact, Pozo comments that \u201cthere are weeks when we cannot offer service up to 72 hours in advance because we need more hours to carry out the same services and we do not have enough drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarcelona\u2019s port environment has become too small\u201d<\/p>\n

The director of Cotraport says that \u201cBarcelona\u2019s port environment has become too small\u201d and while he recognises that measures have already been taken, such as the approval of the new accesses to the south of the Port or the future transfer of all container activity to the southern dock of the Port, where the construction of a car park for trucks and related auxiliary services is planned. \u201cThese will not take effect until about 10 years from now,\u201d says Pozo, who asks \u201cwhat measures will be taken while we wait for these improvements?\u201d, he concludes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barcelona. Cotraport director Juan Pozo tells Diario del Puerto that \u201cwe are in the process of making our clients aware that price is not the most important thing, but rather the good service offered by our partners.\u201d \u201cWe are working with rates very similar to those of 15 years ago and in the same period […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotraportbcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}