Androulakis: One in two Greeks cannot take a trip due to the ferries – 2024-07-16 12:57:17

Query and Request for Submission of Paperwork to the Parliament was submitted by PaSoK concerning the value improve in ferry tickets, citing a worth comparability desk in well-liked island locations.

Because the PASoK factors out, based on a latest analysis carried out by the staff of the net ferry ticket reserving platform ferryroute.com with which they in contrast the evolution of costs from 2019 to 2023, fare costs in recent times have elevated as follows :

• Chania: The value of 1 single ticket (Monetary Place – Deck) elevated from 27€ in 2019 in 41€ in 2024, marking a rise of 51.85%. For the tickets by automotivethe value elevated from €49 to €79i.e. greater than 60%.
• Santorini: One single ticket it value 41€ in 2019 and now prices 58€, whereas by automotive the value elevated from €91 to €128i.e. a 40% improve.
• Rhodes: The value of 1 single ticket elevated from €65 in 2019 to €91 in 2024, a rise of round 39%. For the tickets by automotivethe value elevated from €104 to €150i.e. 44%.
• Tinos: The value of 1 single ticket elevated by 35€ in 2019 in 49€, whereas by automotive the value elevated from €79 to €110, i.e. a 40% improve.
• Paros: The value of 1 single ticket elevated by 36€ in 2019 in 50€whereas by automotive the value elevated from €83 to €116up 40%

In line with analysis by the Client Items Retail Analysis Institute, this 12 months one in two Greeks will be unable to take a trip as a result of elevated value of tickets and lodging. Strangers in our personal place. Coastal ferry tickets have elevated in worth over the past… pic.twitter.com/HxfTVNO3kn

— Nikos Androulakis (@androulakisnick) July 11, 2024

“Strangers in our personal place. Coastal ferry tickets have risen in worth over the past 5 years by at the very least 40%. The speedy improve in the price of residing and the deterioration of the buying energy of the residents – within the penultimate place among the many EU international locations – require instant solutions” emphasizes the president of the get together Nikos Androulakis in his submit.

“We instantly ask the federal government to impose a ceiling for particular routes. The obscene revenue on the backs of the Greek individuals can’t and shouldn’t be tolerated,” he provides.

Cheaper overseas

These costs are as much as 60% larger than the costs for corresponding routes in Northern Europe.

For instance, on the route Oslo – Copenhagen a household of 4 with an inside cabin and a automotive is touring with 696 when in Greece for the route Piraeus – Rhodes the fee quantities to 1105,50 euro.

“In different phrases, in Greece we pay 58.8% extra expensively than Northern Europeans for a route that’s even marginally, if not shorter,” stresses PaSoK.

The “ups and downs” of costs

In a latest announcement, the Delivery sector of PASoK identified that on the times when there is just one firm on a line, the costs improve and on the times when a second firm enters the route, the costs lower.

For instance:

1. On the road Piraeus – Santorini the day begins with a ticket 89.70 euros and steadily as different ships of different corporations enter the road, it decreases as much as 58 euros within the afternoon.
2. On the road Piraeus – Ios in in the future you may journey for the value of 84 euros whereas the subsequent day you journey with 59 or 67 euros as a result of different ships are becoming a member of the road.
3. On the road Heraklion – Mykonoson the in the future that the ferry connecting the road is one, the ticket worth is 105,70 euros, the subsequent day there’s a second competing ship with a ticket worth of 79 and thus the corporate is pressured to drop the ticket worth from 105.7 to 83 euro.
4. On the road Heraklion – Santorini on days when just one ship or an organization with two ships serves the route, the value is 92.70 euro. However on the times when ships of one other firm enter the road, this worth is decreased as much as 59 euro.

“Clearly the worldwide gasoline costs on the times when there are two corporations on the identical route lower and on the opposite day when there may be one firm, the gasoline costs improve.

And for the reason that Authorities appears to undertake this argument too, let’s point out that Brent costs are at 80 {dollars} a barrel within the first days of July, practically 30% decrease than in 2022 when its worth had reached 112 {dollars} a barrel and likewise 30% decrease than it was within the interval 2012-2014, i.e. greater than a decade earlier.

How is it that on the similar time, whereas worldwide gasoline costs are lowering in Greece, the costs of ferry tickets are rising? In spite of everything, is it not the worldwide gasoline costs which can be accountable, however the oligopolistic construction of a market that’s primarily managed by simply two corporations?” they emphasize in PaSoK.

The questions submitted by PaSoK

1. When will the value observatory on the ferry traces be operational and why has it not been operational till now?
2. Why have not the outcomes of the latest audits and the 7 violations recognized by the Ministry been made public?
3. Why has the letter from the Minister of Delivery and Island Coverage to the Competitors Fee not been made public?
4. What are the actions of the Ministry of Delivery and Island Coverage and the Ministry of Growth to fight the phenomenon of profiteering within the sector?
5. How a lot have ticket costs elevated within the final 5 years of New Democracy’s rule? Please give us detailed data by route and costs for the final 5 years.
6. Does the Authorities intend to proceed with figuring out the coefficients of the weather of the price of transport in addition to the degrees of connectivity and tolerable fare for the islands?