Bus operators, metros and trains suffer full whip the outbreak of diesel, but also and especially gas and electricity. They ask for support from the state.
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The alert was launched by Thierry Mallet, the CEO of Transdev, Monday, February 21, when presenting the 2021 outcome of the public transport operator, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts and one of the world leaders of the sector. “I was instead confident about 2022, but our great anxiety comes now on energy prices,” he said. We must find solutions against this new crisis that starts. “
This is a new shock for a sector already weakened by the health crisis. Above all, it hit all azimuth, and more where we do not expect it. With its bus and coach fleets, public transport is a big consumer of diesel, but the most scathing increase comes instead of gas used for GNV bus and electricity for electric vehicles and traction of the metro, trains and trams. However, these industrial buyers do not benefit from the government’s anti-rising shields to avoid individuals to undergo the yo yo of gas and electricity.
“For diesel, contracts passed with communities and organizing authorities (AOM) effectively protect us against gains, explains Frédéric Bavez, Executive Director for France of the Operator Keolis, a subsidiary of the SNCF . On the other hand, the indices used as a re-evaluation are less reliable for the gas, as they integrate the price paid by individuals, and even less loyal for electricity, whose price on the spot market has been multiplied by three or four. “” The rise in the price of gas, it is a multiplication by three in France, and by ten on other markets like the Czech Republic, “adds Mallet.
” Waiting a strong gesture “
“In the first two months of the year, we lost 15 million euros because of the rise in the price of energy, highlights the boss of Transdev. This level of additional cost is not sustainable for Low margin companies, like ours. “As a comparison, in 2021, Transdev achieved a current result (excluding exceptional losses) of 33 million euros. The RATP group is also called “strongly impacted by rising energy prices, and particularly gas. Our energy bill will greatly progress, this year”.
More broadly, the union of public and rail transport (UTP), the professional organization of the sector, believes that rising fuel prices and electricity over one year (from February 2021 to February 2022) represents 250 million euros of additional charges for its members. And all these figures do not take into account the month of March and the sustainable effects of the war in Ukraine.
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