2023-09-02 06:54:18
Saturday 02/Sep/2023 at 08:54 – Updated at 08:56
They are four small family businesses: Autocars ACM, Bellini, Bernardi and Nadizi. They have been providing for several generations, with around fifty employees, school transport in the valleys of Gravona, Prunelli and on the southern shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio. On Friday, September 1, their leaders expressed their dismay to learn, “five days”back to school that they lost several of their “historical lines” au benefit of a new company, Phenix, run by two young islanders. The latter wins ten lines out of 94 lots offered by the CdC in the sector concerned. “What did the CoC do? What should we tell our employees?”wonder, furious, the carriers who do not hesitate to mention a “offense of favoritism”.
In particular, they wonder regarding the ability of the young company to provide such a restrictive public service: “This company, backed by a continental business (statement denied by its leaders in our columns) has proposed offers sometimes up to 25% lower. My business has been around for almost a hundred years, explains Nathalie Carlotti, of Alliance Bernardi, and we are struggling to buy a bus. I don’t see how these two young people can get away with it.” Same story with the ACM coaches run by Christelle Meucci: “I am not once morest the fact that a new company is set up, but it obtained a very important number of lines with particularly low offers. However, it is necessary to be able to judge the financial capacity to ensure the public service!”
The collective of the four companies in the sector of Gravona, Prunelli and the southern shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio contests the allocation by the CdC of ten school transport lines to a new operator. Florent Selvini
The weakness of the offers offered by this new player comes shake up a market on which are positioned for generations small companies accustomed to sharing the lots offered. It prompted the intervention, during the month of August, of the union of carriers FNTV: “We did not intervene with the tender commission of course, but we wanted to alert to the fact that some prices were abnormally low“argues Jean-François Benassi.
“How are we going to do this ?”
The call for tenders was also launched, according to the collective of carriers, much too late (in May) by the CdC with notifications arriving on August 31: “We are a small, conscientious company, explain Marius Bocognano, I have just changed my three coaches and I rented two of them before the summer to be able to ensure the DSP. How will I do ?”
Loans in progress, employees waiting to be hired, all coupled with endorsements to be signed to ensure the continuity of public service on certain lines until All Saints’ Day… For the collective, the CdC does not take sufficient account of the road transport sector: “IThey pay much more attention to the air, to the sea. They will do everything to save Air Corsica. However, we represent 1,300 employees in Corsica, that’s not nothing!” The collective is not certain to ensure the continuity of certain lines until All Saints Day and is considering legal action once morest the CdC.
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