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Road transport: the indexation bill, a mechanism for adapting to fluctuations in fuel prices
The Minister of Transport and Logistics, Mohamed Abdeljalil, indicated on Tuesday that the bill relating to the indexation of road transport prices to fuel prices, being drawn up in agreement with the representations concerned, aims to provide professionals with a legal mechanism to help them adapt to fluctuations in the prices of these products.
This text also tends to provide structural answers to the problem of hydrocarbon price fluctuations and its effects on the road transport sector in the future, explained the minister in response to oral questions in the House of Councillors, considering that this project will relatively strengthen the transportation ecosystem.
The bill aims to commit both the carrier and the shipper to revise transport rates when fuel prices change between the date of the agreement on the price of transport and that of the service, he said. continued, noting that in the event that there is a transport contract between the two parties containing provisions on the revision of transport prices to index increases or decreases in fuel prices, the provisions will be applied of this contract.
In the absence of this contract, the bill provides for the application of the provisions for the indexation to be adopted between the price of transport and the price of fuel, specified Mohamed Abdeljalil.
Immediate contracts carried out in a short time, as well as the types of transport whose prices are fixed by the State (urban transport and passenger transport) are not concerned by this text, added the minister.
This text does not in any way mean that the State will intervene to set the transport rates which remain free and are subject to supply and demand and to the agreement between the carrier and the shipper, he added. said again.
The minister also indicated that this draft law will be the subject of broad consultations between the various ministerial departments concerned, as well as with road transport professionals before submitting it to the approval procedures.
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