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Danone spoke about the doubling of transportation costs due to Plato
The cost of transporting goods to the south due to the introduction of the Platon system has increased by 80-100 percent, said Bernard Ducrot, head of the Russian branch of the French company Danone. On other routes, the price of delivery also increased, but less significantly (by 25 percent).
According to Ducrot, in connection with this, we should expect a rise in the price of milk by several percent. How exactly the price will change, he did not say, since several factors influence this (not only transportation).
What did our transport partners tell us? "You need trucks, you need a truck - pay." Even if we use the services of one logistics provider, they use the services of transport companies. Therefore, the transport company says: "If you want a car, the car will go on the route, pay for additional fees, if anything - a fine." I am convinced that the bulk of the damage has happened precisely because of the way the system was introduced.
- The Platon system has been operating in Russia since November 15, 2015. Owners of trucks weighing more than 12 tons must pay for travel on federal highways. On the first day the system was launched, its website was down: no one could pay the toll, and many were afraid to send a car on the route, because driving without payment was threatened with a fine of half a million rubles. Subsequently, it was reduced to five thousand rubles (for the first violation).
- Truckers still oppose the Platon system. They arrange protests in different regions of Russia.