A ROBUST private French rail sector appears to have
undermined the will to strike of state railway workers and many expect normal
rail freight conditions to resume this week, reports Lloyd's Loading List.
"Business as usual is not far off," said
Jean-Yves Plisson, head of road-rail industry association, Groupement National
des Transports Combines (GNTC). "Not being dependent on SNCF has helped,
with operators also having switched to road,"
"Roughly 50 per cent of scheduled 'intermodal'
trains operated in the early days of the strike, and earlier this week this had
risen to 60-80 per cent," said Mr Plisson.
But state-owned Fret SNCF (Societe Nationale des Chemins
fers) continued to advise customers to postpone shipments until further notice.
The strike that started June 11 was called to protest to
the government's rail reforms, which were debated in parliament this week.
SNCF said EUR160 million (US217.5 million) was the global
cost of the strike, which includes a compensation package to passengers of EUR45
million. But there has been no word on compensation for shippers.
Source : HKSG.
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