During a meeting with the Corripio Communications group yesterday, Wednesday 11 June, the Dominican Free Zones Association (Adozona) criticized the government’s tolerant approach towards the country’s cargo transport monopoly. Adozona calls for a definite solution to the problem. “The government needs to take action to end the harmful practice that affects the right of companies to choose how to transport their goods and increases transportation costs, affecting future investments in the transport sector.”
In the interview, Adozona president Aquiles Bermudez said that companies pay excessive rates for domestic transport and it is time to end that. He gave the example of a freight container transport that costs RD$24,000-RD$26,000 from the Caucedo Multimodal Port when it could cost RD$18,000 if companies were allowed to use their own fleets. The Fenatrado monopoly obliges, through the use of vandalism, companies to transport at least 50% of their cargo using their services.
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