Fuel shortage: strike lifted at three out of five TotalEnergies sites, improvement at stations – France Bleu

Three sites so far on strike from TotalEnergies decided to suspend the movement on Wednesday. These are the depots of La Mède in the Bouches-du-Rhône, that of Donges in Loire-Atlantique and that of Mardyck near Dunkirk. The movement is running out of steam but the return to normal in service stations in France is slow, before the autumn school holidays which begin Friday evening. Two out of five sites still on strikeThere are now only two out of five sites that continue to call for a strike launched three weeks ago by the CGT to demand a wage increase: Feyzin, near Lyon (Rhône), and Gonfreville in Seine-Maritime. In Gonfreville in Normandy, “the strike is renewed until October 27”, the day on which TotalEnergies must announce its results for the third quarter, “unless the management contacts us before”, announced Ludovic Desplanches, elected CGT, at the outcome of a general meeting. The strikers are asking to negotiate with the local management. The executive ordered requisitions on the Feyzin deposit on Tuesday, a measure which allows “significant improvements” assures Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. “I want to once again call on the striking employees to return to work,” she added, as the All Saints’ Day holidays begin in two days. A situation that is slowly improving at the pump This Thursday, 16.9% of service stations are experiencing supply difficulties on at least one fuel, against 20.3% on Wednesday. The situation is still tense in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, with 29% of stations in difficulty. In Île-de-France, a quarter of the stations are still in difficulty, as in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. On Wednesday, the Vinci Autoroutes group wanted to reassure before the All Saints holidays, by announcing that at least 90% of service stations in its network were able to supply fuel.
The subsidiaries of the Eiffage group specified, for their part, that “continuity of service is ensured at 82% for unleaded petrol, and at 88% for diesel, at the 97 service areas of the APRR and AREA”. The subsidiaries of the Eiffage group specified, for their part, that “continuity of service is ensured at 82% for unleaded petrol, and at 88% for diesel, at the 97 service areas of the APRR and AREA “.”The All Saints’ weekend will be able to pass more serenely” On franceinfo Thursday, Frédéric Plan, general delegate of the French Federation of fuels, fuels and heating, declared that the “All Saints’ weekend will to be able to move on more serenely”. At the head of a federation which represents fuel distributors and a thousand petrol stations, he estimates that the “situation has stopped getting worse since last week. Now it is a question of seeing what is the rate of improvement”. According to him, the regions most affected by shortages are “Ile-de-France, part of Normandy and Center-Val-de-Loire, as well as the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region”. loading “From the moment all the depots reopen, it takes two weeks” for a return to normal, recalls Frédéric Plan, even if for service stations it goes faster in theory. As such, as the All Saints’ Day holidays begin this Friday evening, the manager is confident: according to him, there will be “less risk of falling on dry pumps [sur l’autoroute] since these service stations under contract are delivered as a priority”. Finally, concerning fuel prices, Frédéric Plan forecasts a drop in prices at the pump with the end of the strike. According to him, “there is today a premium in France which can be estimated at up to 20 euro cents per litre”. Umih, the Union of Hotel Trades and Industries deplores more than 60% cancellations for the hotel industry in France as the All Saints holidays approach. 57 Fuels: why are some service stations out of stock?