2023-12-15 23:40:29
The Ministry of Infrastructure reported that payments for a total of $8.9 billion were released today for urban and suburban passenger automobile transportation, which updates the commitments of the national State.
The portfolio led by Minister Guillermo Ferraro reported that the transferred amount “is distributed between the tariff compensations of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and the Interior Compensation Fund whose provinces have sent and have approved their returns.”
In this way, with “the release of payments for a total of $8.9 billion for urban and suburban passenger automobile transportation,” the ministry assured that “the National Government is up to date with the obligations assumed to date.”
The Government’s measure
The transfer of resources takes place following on Thursday the business chambers that bring together the public passenger transport lines of the AMBA reported that there might be suspension of services due to the lack of payment of the corresponding subsidies by the State.
The business entities stated that “given the sharp increase in fuel, the devaluation that directly impacts most of the inputs and spare parts and the scarcity of resources that the sector has, as a result of a cost calculation carried out with prices of “September, the operating companies are carrying out service restrictions of different magnitudes according to the possibilities of each one.”
The statement was signed by the Argentine Association of Automotive Transport Entrepreneurs (Aaeta), the Transport Chamber of the Province of Buenos Aires (Ctpba), the Passenger Motor Transport Business Chamber (Ceap), the Urban Transport Business Chamber of Buenos Aires (Cetuba) and the Chamber of United Businessmen of Urban Passenger Transport of Bs.As. (Ceutupba).
For its part, the Argentine Federation of Automotive Passenger Transporters (Fatap) announced “the reduction of services to the essential operational minimums and the suspension of night services from 9:30 p.m. until the first scheduled service per day. following”.
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