This derogation should help to mitigate the tensions that persist on the supply of certain regions, including Ile-de-France.
Le Monde with AFP
In order to supply service stations, some of which are still dry, heavy goods vehicles carrying hydrocarbons will be able to circulate to All Saints’ Day, according to a decree published on Saturday October 29 in the Official Journal, while the government mobilized trucks of trucks the army to accelerate deliveries.
In view of “tensions on the fuel supply noted on the national territory”, the prohibitions for the circulation of transport vehicles of more than 7.5 tonnes provided by a previous decree of April 2021 are lifted for Mondays October 31, Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2 November for “vehicles of transport of hydrocarbons products, with the exception of butane, propane and gases for industrial uses”.
These vehicles will be able to circulate during these three days “in order to allow supplies with petroleum deposits as well as from petroleum deposits to distribution points and end customers”, and get in empty.
des Tensions persist
The executive has already taken four similar orders since October 7. “We also asked the deposits to extend their opening hours today (Saturday), and to open the 1 er November. Five big deposits will be,” said the Agency France-Presse (AFP) A spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy Transition.
The government no longer gives statistics on the number of missing service stations, a consequence of the movement, started by the CGT on September 27, which caused supply difficulties throughout the country. “At the national level, the situation has improved significantly, but there are tensions in Ile-de-France, and to a lesser extent in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Burgundy-Franche-Comté”, noted the carrier Word.
“What the prefects note is that the stations have fewer difficulties and therefore have less the reflex to declare on the Price-Food site “, which is supposed to account for the power. “Hence the fact that certain stations sometimes appear when they are no longer,” she noticed.
“improvements” to wait by this weekend
“We are continuing our action, always freeing strategic stocks to fluidify logistics, and with the support of trucks from the Ministry of Armed Forces to deliver professionals, in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions In particular, “said the spokesperson, adding that” strong volumes of gasoline could be injected into the Le Havre-Paris pipeline “to feed Ile-de-France. Highway stations were served as a priority, according to her.
“Special tensions will disappear within a few days. Improvement should be seen by this weekend,” said the president of the French Union of Petroleum Industries (UFIP), Olivier Gantois on Friday.
The difficulties still mainly concern unleaded essence, which is not imported, according to him. Two Totalnergies sites were continuing the movement on Saturday: the Gonfreville-l’Orcher (Seine-Maritime) refinery and the feyzin deposit (Métropole de Lyon).