With the soaring price of a barrel of oil and the saturation of heavy truck traffic on the roads, rail freight has a future. It has become a popular mode of transport for Catalan and Spanish fruit and vegetable producers. Factual images that alternate with interviews with logistics personnel who provide the daily Perpignan-Rungis connection for the delivery of fruit and vegetables in refrigerated wagons.
In three months, the Rennes rail yard will be closed. All freight will transit through Saint-Pierre-des-Corps near Tours. This decision was made in response to the decline in rail freight. The employees will be reclassified. In Brittany, there is strong competition for rail transport by road. Factual images of the Rennes yard alternating with interviews with Patrick DESCHAMPS, head of SNCF yard in Rennes and Daniel GOUSSET, railway CGT, of the yard in Rennes.
On the occasion of the "Freight Days" organized by the SNCF, a report devoted to the line, dubbed the "Primeur train", connecting the Saint-Charles International platform of Perpignan to the Rungis market, allowing the delivery of refrigerated wagons of fruits and vegetables. Every evening, four convoys on this rail freight line will set off towards the capital. Images of fruit crates at the Marché Saint-Charles, the exhibition on freight service, trains alternate with the interview of Serge FABRE, SNCF communications officer.
The point on the possible removal of the Perpignan-Rungis freight line from the "primeur train". The carriers that used to move almost 400,000 tonnes of fruit and vegetables a year feel that the equipment is too old and too expensive to change. The convoys would be replaced by trucks. Images of loading of refrigerated wagons, loading docks alternate with the interviews of Mickaël MEUSNIER, CGT railway worker and Jean-Luc COURTINAT, Delegate of transport personnel Rety.
Factual images alternating with the nterview of André Bergery, head of commercial division, about the service and conditions of transport of cattle from Limousin to Italy by the Bovitalia train.
The milk pot has lived and the process is modernizing. Pasteurized milk is now shipped in insulated tanks. The isothermic system avoids the use of milk jars whose hygiene incoveniients have been reported. Every day, 600,000 litres of milk are shipped to Paris.