Thursday’s strike called by all railway unions will have little impact on railway traffic as it will be “Almost normal on TGVs” while “Some disturbances are expected on certain regional lines”announced on Tuesday, November 19 to SNCF Voyageurs. The company will announce more detailed forecasts locally in the afternoon.
Railway unions are calling for a 24-hour strike on Thursday to denounce the dismantling of Fret SNCF and the opening to competition in passenger transport, ahead of a renewable movement from December 11.
Last week, Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Partnership with the Territories, ruled out any moratorium on the dismantling of the SNCF freight branch, despite strike threats. Responding to the communist deputy Nicolás Sansu who demanded this moratorium, the minister stressed before the National Assembly that the transformation of rail freight transport was due “a European obligation”. the theme is “keep track” by the government and will be “evoked” with the new European commissioners, said Catherine Vautrin, whose responsibilities include transport.
the government is “determined to make rail transport a pillar of the decarbonization of the transport sector”the minister stressed, ensuring that“There will be no layoffs in this project”and so? “everything flows” of goods will be “kept in lane”.
Leader of rail freight transport in France, Fret SNCF will disappear on 1Ahem Next January it will be reborn in the form of two different companies: Hexafret for freight transport and Technis for locomotive maintenance. This is the culmination of a plan negotiated between the European Commission and the French State, suspected of having paid aid to Fret SNCF in violation of competition rules.
