SNCF: Pepy sees real signs of recovery
After his poor performance in 2009 nearly one billion euros loss, its first negative result since 2001 – the station returns to profit in 2010. Guillaume Pepy, President of the Railway Group, invited the Grand Rendez-Vous Europe1 – The Australian – Today in France, announced a recovery group accounts. "Feeling better, the SNCF has not made a loss in the first half of 2010, it is in the green," he said. But he tempered and clarified that the results should be published Tuesday, will benefit "so so small that we are not now satisfied."
Guillaume Pepy, however, indicated that there were "real signs of recovery: the transport of goods have left" and, for "transportation of daily life, it off again."In addition, the summer holidays were "well placed", he said, adding that the company had shipped more than 400,000 people last year during the summer. The director general of SNCF Voyages Barbara Dalibard said in the Sunday newspaper that the station had "carried 17 million passengers, 1.5% more than in summer 2009 which had already marked a good resistance to the crisis."
A strike of more than 24 hours
Regarding the strike notice be renewed from September 7 launched by three unions of the SNCF (FOR, CFTC and CFE-CGC) not nationally representative – Chairman Railway Group was optimistic. "The four unions that are representative (CGT, UNSA and SUD-Rail ed CFDT) said that traffic would resume on September 8, (thus) the traffic will resume on 8.He however declined to forecast the magnitude of disturbance, recalling that the strike rate was 40% during the mobilization of June 24 (46% according to the CGT).
Wanting reassurance he said that the minimum service is a success in the station: there were "more trains, and there is more info. 200,000 brochures will be distributed and September 7. The cost of a strike settled "between 10 and 20 million euros," he said. He found it "interesting" the idea of feeding a fund with the money that could be saved if there were fewer strikes. "It would seem normal, if there is less of a strike at the SNCF, less disruption of public service, that somewhere the railwaymen themselves have a return," he said.
Guillaume Pepy has finally refuted the rumor of his entry into government at the next reshuffle: "It's anything (…) It's 100% hoax.
