This summer the permanent RFC team visited the Delta3 site which is one of its French terminal customers.

The situation of rail freight, which has been fragile for many years, was particularly affected by the strike movements of December 2019 and January 2020, then by the drop in activity linked to Covid-19. As part of today's citizens' convention and environmental defence council, the Government is announcing a series of emergency measures to help this mode of transport overcome the crisis and strengthen its competitiveness. These initial measures are intended to be articulated with the future recovery plan, which will include a section relating to rail freight.

In accordance with the provisions of Article 26 of Decree 2003-194 relating to the use of the rail network translated into Article 4.4.3 of the Network Statement document (NS) applicable for HDS 2021, SNCF Réseau identifies several line sections as likely to be saturated at the end of the construction of the 2021 service timetable.