It will take effect in three years.
It's official and it was announced during the plenary videoconference meeting of the Grand-Est Regional Council.
The region will be the first in France to open cross-border rail lines to competition from SNCF, to Germany.
The regional council voted to initiate the procedure for the operation of seven links representing a total of 525 kilometers from Metz (Moselle), Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) and Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) to the German border towns. from Trier, Saarbrücken, Neustadt, Karlsruhe, Offenburg and Müllheim, located in the Länder of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Baden-Württemberg.
The operation is scheduled for December 8, 2024, after the notice of call for competition that the regional council will publish at the end of this month jointly with the three Länder, with a view to designating the winners in mid-2023.
"The contract includes the take-over of SNCF staff"
The 15-year contract is divided into two lots, one from Metz and one from Alsace, for an operating volume estimated at 6.4 million train-kilometers per year, of which two-thirds in French territory. It constitutes a "first in France for the cross-border", underlined Jean Rottner, president (LR) of the regional council. According to the executive of the region, these lines represent a development potential that is currently underutilized by the SNCF. The market, which includes the resumption of SNCF staff, will be open to "any operator, French, German or other", added David Valence, vice-president of transport.
According to him and Evelyne Isinger, regional adviser in charge of cross-border mobility, the opening will multiply the offer by two to four depending on the sections, in response to "strong demand", and it "will even create it" on the Metz-Trèves lines and Strasbourg-Karlsruhe, “which will go from zero weekday trains to 8 and 17 round trips per day respectively”.
Already regional lines open to competition
As a reminder, the Grand-Est forms a basin of approximately 12 million inhabitants and 45,000 border workers with the territories of the three Länder which border it. As for the question of the technical compatibility of the rolling stock, it will be "settled beforehand", underlined Jean Rottner, thanks to the order by the region for 375 million euros of 30 Alstom trains that can circulate indifferently on the two French networks. and German. Still according to the president of the region, investments to modernize infrastructure will be essential. “This point is not part of the market, but a 2020 agreement between the French State and the Grand-Est region sets the principles,” said David Valence.
The Grand-Est has already opened up to competition - procedure in progress - lines internal to its territory, between Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and Contrexéville (Vosges) and between Strasbourg, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and Epinal ( Vosges).
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