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todayFriday 21 October 202211:40WHICH STATIONS TO GET SUPPLY ON THE MOTORWAY? Despite the improvement in the situation, some service stations are still short of fuel. On this first day of departure on vacation, the motorway networks are setting up an information system. Motorists can identify the stations supplied and those out of supply on dedicated sites. service stations “on the busiest motorways and national roads will be served as a priority” for the supply of fuel. In addition, “tank trucks from the operational energy service of the Ministry of the Armed Forces will be mobilized to relieve the logistics systems in the most tense areas”, inform the ministers Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Energy Transition) and Clément Beaune (Transport) .08:26SHORTAGE FIGURES The proportion of service stations in France offering neither petrol nor diesel rose to 31% nationally in mid-October, and to almost half in Hauts-de- France, according to official data, a greater shortage than the situation described by the government. A figure illustrates the growing shortage that has paralyzed French stations: on October 17, only 53% of stations were selling both petrol and diesel, compared to 92% before the strike on September 24, according to the analysis of official data. Thursday at midday, this proportion had risen to 69%. These are national averages. Some regions, such as Hauts-de-France with 49% of stations in total rupture on October 11 or Ile-de-France at 47% on October 10, were more affected than others. THE SITUATION On Thursday, 16.9% of service stations were in difficulty at the national level. Two sites, Gonfreville (Seine-Maritime) and Feyzin (Rhône), are still on strike. However, it should not run out of fuel for vacation departures. We take stock.TransportPublished today at 7:35amYesterdayThursday October 20, 202222:25 “THE FRENCH CAN LEAVE CONFIDENT” ON HOLIDAYS, ASSURES E. BORNE Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured Thursday, in the columns of Liberation, that “the French can go confident” on vacation, with “a return to normal in the coming days” regarding the supply of fuel to service stations. “The situation has improved markedly since the beginning of the week”, argues the head of government, against a backdrop of the breathlessness of the social movement of the oil sites, two of them from TotalEnergies remaining at a standstill on Thursday after new striker votes. “I’m not going to tell you that the situation will be 100% settled for departures on vacation, but the French can leave confident,” insisted the tenant of Matignon, evoking “the prospect of a return to normal in the days who come”, with “90% of motorway stations (which) will operate normally” from Friday evening for the start of the All Saints school holidays. 17:08 16.9% OF STATIONS IN DIFFICULTY The situation is improving in Hexagon. Thursday, 16.9% of stations remain in difficulty (at least one fuel missing) at the national level against 20.3% the day before, according to the monitoring point of the Ministry of Energy Transition. However, it remains complicated to obtain supplies in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (29% of stations in difficulty), in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (25%) and in Île-de-France (25.5%). RENEWAL The strike has been renewed until October 27 at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville, the CGT said on Thursday. “The strike is extended until October 27”, the day on which TotalEnergies is to announce its third quarter results, “unless management contacts us before,” said Ludovic Desplanches, union representative, after an interview. a general meeting in the middle of the day. 10:57 UPDATE ON THE SITUATION Mobilization in refineries and French fuel depots is running out of steam. This Thursday, only two sites – Gonfreville (Seine-Maritime) and Feyzin (Rhône) – remain on strike. However, the situation at the pump remains very heterogeneous throughout the country. government Olivier Véran welcomed the lifting of the strike in certain sites. “It’s going even better, I think things are moving in the Southeast,” he announces, adding: “We have dealt with the problem at the root.” Justifying the requisitions in the depots, Olivier Véran assured that the government reserved the right to make new “as many as necessary”. Gonfreville refinery (Seine-Maritime) and the Feyzin depot (Rhône), but is suspended on all other sites, said Thursday Eric Sellini, national coordinator of the CGT for TotalEnergies. “The movement continues in Gonfreville and Feyzin. It is suspended everywhere else,” he confirmed to AFP. After three weeks of blockages, the employees of the “Flandres” site in Mardyck, near Dunkirk and that of La Mède in the Bouches-du-Rhône decided to resume work on Wednesday evening when the night teams were to take their quarter. The end of the strike had been voted earlier in the day at the Donges refinery (Loire-Atlantique). 06:59MAP The fuel shortage affecting France does not affect all regions in the same proportions. For example, in Brittany, less than one station in ten is out of stock, while in Île-de-France, the queues remain endless. news related to the shortage of fuels.