The freight train carrying primeurs from Perpignan to the market Rungis, currently suspended, is suspended until November 1, said Wednesday a vice president of the Occitan Region, after a meeting in Perpignan. "The empty link, as it has been done for three days, is not acceptable, it will stop today (Wednesday) until November 1. From November 1st will start a connection between Saint-Charles (Perpignan transport platform) and Rungis, as it was, but transiently, the time to find a lasting solution, "added Jean-Luc Gibelin, regional vice president.
"The rail link between Perpignan and Rungis now has a future"
Minister of Transport and Ecological Transition Elisabeth Borne confirmed this resumption on November 1st. "As we have just entered the low season where few goods need to be transported, the meeting (...) made it possible to obtain the commitment of the customers to take up this transitional railway solution as soon as the recovery of the season high on November 1st, "she said.
"The rail link between Perpignan and Rungis now has a future.At the meeting of May 17 at the Ministry (...), the SNCF had committed to [maintain] this train until the end of the high season and had proposed that it be extended until the end of the year, the time that there is a sustainable rail solution that takes over, "she added.
"This is a killing that the new Minister of Ecology pronounces!"
But for Thomas Portes, animator of the collective "Save the Perpignan-Rungis", trade unionist of the CGT-Cheminots and national manager of the railways to the PCF, "it is a killing that pronounces the new Minister of Ecology! the transfer of 25,000 trucks on the roads! " "From the beginning, we were right," he said on Twitter. Earlier in the day, he said that the new Minister for the Ecological Transition had "let go for the third day in a row the train of scrapes empty from Perpignan to the MIN (national market interest) of Rungis: There is the ecology of words and the ecology of acts ".