In this pre-election period, president François Hollande wants it to demonstrate that the political determination can have a good ? In any case, the factory Belfort is expected to continue beyond 2018, the initial date on which the direction of the railway builder wanted to transfer manufacturing and design offices to the factory, alsace, Reichshoffen.
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At Alstom, after the shock of the announcement at the beginning of September, the solution presented Tuesday, October 4, is the unexpected. While Henri Poupart Lafarge, the CEO of the company, wanted to launch a first industrial restructuring, the government showed him a different way. Person can not blame this time to the State of having lost its national manufacturer. The alternative plan concocted with the finance ministry is broad and massive. The employees of the group, and, in particular, of the 480, Belfort, will not be able to say that the government is indifferent to his fate.
Securing the La Rochelle site
the rescue of The site through the use of two commands of a score of trains, TGV is a blessing for the employees. The first comes from the SNCF for six trains to travel between France and Italy, while the second comes from the State as the organising authority for transport trains-City. By playing this card, the State has at the same time obtained a certain security of the site of La Rochelle, which assembles cars of the TGV, Belfort is limited to the manufacture of the motor, the front and rear of each train.
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For the factory belfortaine, these commands translate into the additional charge for the workshops, but also by a surplus of work for design offices adjoining, which bring together more than 150 people on the site. Especially, while the French production of freight locomotives should be shut down by 2018 in spite of a few commands that are complementary to the part of the SNCF Network, the State and Alstom have found ways to ensure a new orientation to the site.
What is the impact on the regions ?
The site of railway maintenance is strengthened and becomes a centre of excellence at european level, with substantial investments in parallel : the key, 150 people, two times more than today. At the same time, Alstom will begin on the very promising and highly competitive market of electric buses.
This abundance of advertisements, however, raises questions. First of all, at what price safe-t-on this site of 480 employees ? The only controls of the TGV will cost over 700 million euros of public money, without counting the orders complementary. Save a single site, even if it was historic and symbolic, is likely to put the State budget. At least if the public authority goes to the end of his orders.
The negotiations are open to punishment and will have to see what happens after the presidential election in the spring of 2017. Similarly, the State could discard on the regions served by these new trains to pay the bill.
What about Europe ?
These new TGV should serve the cross-sectional South, between Bordeaux and Nice, Toulouse, Montpellier and Marseille, as indicated in Le Figaro, and the letter professional Mobilettre. By the year 2021, some portions of this pathway will be of high-speed lines (LGV), including the LGV Montpellier-Marseille and the bypass Nîmes-Montpellier, which will open in 2017. Finally, you will still have to wait to see a possible high speed line between Bordeaux and Toulouse.
run it at 200 km/h of the material that is capable of rolling at speeds of 320 km/h is not very optimal and rational for an operator. A train TGV costs two times more than a conventional equipment. The negotiations between the State and Alstom will be so harsh on the cost of the machines. Similarly, it will be necessary to absorb this material, which could result in a fine in the ticket price…
This direct control also poses a legal question. Europe does not risk-does it not annoy to see a State come to the assistance of his national manufacturer, while passing a contract ordering otc ? The State and Alstom have a weapon, framework contracts existing purchase TGV. For the latter, the State simply activates a purchase option provided.
Finally, if Belfort and La Rochelle are out of the rut, what about assembly factories of Valenciennes (RER, metro) and Reichshoffen (City) ? It will be necessary that Alstom wins this time of tendering, without the unconditional support of the State.
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