Fuels: 28.5% of French stations partially out of stock

Europe 1 with AFP 5:37 p.m., October 14, 2022

At 1 p.m. Friday, 28.5% of French service stations were out of at least one fuel, against 29.2% the day before, said Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher, traveling to Lille.

The situation has worsened in Centre-Val-de-Loire where this rate reached 42.2% on Friday, against 41.2% on Thursday, while in Ile-de-France, 37% of stations are affected against 38.8 % the day before, the ministry said.

In Hauts-de-France, one of the first departments affected by the supply difficulties linked to the strike at TotalEnergies, a quarter of the stations are partially out (25.5%) against 31.7% Thursday at 5 p.m.

"I call on the distributors, and in particular Total, to really mobilize all this weekend so that the trucks are there at the exit of the depots", which will remain open for the next two days, she said. declared to the operational center deployed at the Lille prefecture to deal with shortages.

"More trucks on the road, more carriers"

"The big issue is transportation: having tanker trucks and drivers at work this weekend," she insisted, calling on distributors to "put more trucks on the road, more transporters, to relieve the situation".

Orders have been made to allow tanker trucks to circulate on Saturday and Sunday, and transporters to work with "flexibility on working hours", she added.

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Since Thursday evening, 35 36 m3 trucks, "more than 20,000 full cars in order of magnitude", have left for delivery from the Dunkirk depot, on strike but where employees have been requisitioned, said the ministry.

"The challenge is for the French to get out of this unacceptable situation on a daily basis to go to work, take their child to school", explained Agnès Pannier-Runacher, referring to a return to a situation "under control" in " the coming days".