What will you do nowEverything is going very fastdespite its central role in the existenceSince midSeptember the stock markets mark wayNothing is more subjective than the soundOfficially of course nothing will changeAnd this trend is also leadership positionsThe communal power is does therefore not so easily shareIf the average annual income in the city is estimated at 25Redistribution takes place between sovereign StatesThe other key to all DSI quality is its flairEach schedule. Announcing the week last want to mobilise EUR 7 billion for rail freight, the Government had posted its objective: raise the share of rail in the transport of goods from 14 to 25 to the year 2022. For the SNCF, cargo activity should generate more than 600 million of losses this year again, the urgency is much stronger: according to our information, the railway intends to make a budget balance to the year 2013 for this pole. This is in any case the objective of the rescue plan to be presented tomorrow in central business Committee (CEC), and Board of Directors Wednesday.
The main centre of SNCF freight losses - isolated car, i.e. Assembly of trains from different clients - will be of course at the centre of the restructuring plan. The company hopes to save about 400 million drastically revising his organization. Clear, the offer of isolated cars will endure for some specific segments, such as the transport of dangerous goods or large lots. This will be at rates revised upward, sometimes close to double the current price. For the rest, this activity will focus a multibatch, multi-client approach to products flows. "As a first step, it will result in the loss of 50 of the transported tonnages which will go on the road," said a trade unionist.
"Unimportance of: the number of trucks expected to increase to 1, or 20 per Department and per day", responds to the "Echos" Pierre Blayau, the pattern of the logistics industry in the group. "I remain anyway in a spirit of openness: the transformation of isolated car schedule is negotiable where we want to demonstrate the effectiveness of the projects that we at the same time", continues the leader.
Invest in "the cargo of the future".
Next to this restructuring, the SNCF indeed wants to invest EUR 1 billion in three years in "the cargo of the future". "Evidence that the SNCF is full of good intentions for the carriage of goods", argues Pierre Blayau. In detail, about 280 million euros should go according to our information, in the railway highways. It will be to purchase specific equipment, but also to mount in Lorry Rail capital, the Perpignan-Luxembourg rail Highway Corporation. The envelope of investments also provides 250 million for combined transport (restructuring of Novatrans, terminals) and 350 million for high speed cargo. The SNCF should become, together with Eurotunnel, the operator of the Carex project, which aims at linking several European airports. Finally, 100 million will be devoted to the port activities - group wants to launch two operators in the ports of le Havre and La Rochelle - and support rail proximity operators.
This avalanche of figures reassures yet little trade unions. "We're made wary by the so-called 7 billion of the State, which actually resume investments already incurred for the most and which should be funded at 15 or 20 by local communities", says a trade unionist.
But it is primarily the creation of subsidiaries and the social consequences of the plan are Union defiance. For the first branch, SNCF provides current 2010 two "entities specialized" - subsidiaries of private law - for the combined transport product segments agricultural. Two others could follow, but Pierre Blayau said there also ready "to discuss the tempo".
On the social dimension, the group gives no figures while unions believe that the plan will result in the removal of 5,000 positions in freight activity. "I decline to enter into this logic, since we will also create thousands of jobs in the group" Justice leader. The subject should be discussed today at the headquarters of the group a round table bringing together trade unions, branch and representative of the Government.
