An worker masses fruit into the Perpignan-Rungis Fret prepare, Could 14, 2019. – RAYMOND ROIG / AFP
He was the image of the distinction between speech and motion. The primeurs prepare connecting Perpignan to Rungis, which was used primarily to move fruit and greens from Spain, ought to be relaunched quickly. The State intends to develop rail highways, and make tolls free for freight trains, Prime Minister Jean Castex introduced on Monday as a part of the revival of rail freight.
“There are tolls to take the paths (…) that freight trains take with passenger trains, so we’ve got determined to maintain these tolls free till the tip of 2020 and to divide them by two, this can be a very vital effort, in 2021, within the worth of those tolls ”, declared the Prime Minister on the event of a visit to the mixed transport web site of Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de- Marl).
“It is an extremely strong signal that the government is giving and it is a first step in what I will call the rail reconquest plan,” he added. This represents 63 million euros in 2020 and one other 63 million in 2021, based on Matignon. Thanks to those incentives, the state hopes to see 20,000 fewer heavy items autos on the roads in 2021, comparable to 425,000 tonnes of CO2 emitted much less.
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Sète-Calais and Bayonne-Cherbourg additionally relaunched
The federal government additionally has “the firm intention of reopening and developing rail highways,” added Jean Castex. Requires initiatives will likely be launched by the tip of the yr for the Bayonne-Cherbourg, Sète-Calais and Perpignan-Rungis traces, which the State wish to see prolonged from Antwerp to Barcelona.
“You have before you a Prime Minister who was bruised by the Perpignan-Rungis affair, the primeurs train”, suspended for a yr, confided Jean Castex, elected municipal in Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales).
Till July 2019, the “early bird train”, made up of refrigerated wagons, transported fruit and greens produced within the Pyrénées-Orientales to the Rungis market each evening. The road was to be relaunched on the finish of 2019 to the multimodal platform of Valenton (Val-de-Marne), moderately than to Rungis the place the station should be modernized, however clients haven’t rushed.
Mixed rail-road transport, “it’s the future”
Jean Castex, who was accompanied by SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou, and ministers Emmanuelle Wargon (Housing), Barbara Pompili (Ecological transition) and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (Transport), additionally stated he needed to develop mixed rail transport. highway, as a result of “it is the future”.
“We must also restructure the management of rail freight, improve its competitiveness,” he stated with out additional clarification. One of many challenges is the modernization of the rail community, to which the federal government is spending “several billion euros per year until 2022”, based on Jean-Philippe Djebarri.
On this context, Ivan Stempezynski, president of the nationwide mixed transport group, requested Jean Castex to present SNCF Réseau, observe supervisor, the means to meet his ambitions.
