For the company it is a severe decline in turnover

Public works: bitumen lack

The National Federation of public works yesterday launched a cry of alarm: the lack of bitumen threat of technical unemployment, as early as next week, 15,000 employees on the 280,000 in the sector. "We have arrested sites since Monday, including in Vendée, where our employees have more fuel to get to their place of work, says Bernard Théret, Chairman of the nantais group of building ETPO." Some trucks-tops can no longer reach. On our sites of Normandy, are the blockages that prevent our employees to reach. "Financial consequences are expected, including the fact of the immobilization of the leased equipment," he continued. For the moment, these difficulties affect still only a "small part of the workforce" and the activity can restart "as soon as supplies resume".

The situation is even more serious to Dominique Pionneau, responsible for production of careers Roy at Saint-Varent (Deux-Sèvres), which produce the ballast and the coated roads. "We receive more than bitumen of refinery and production of coated stopped." "For the production of pebbles, we still have in the vats of the business what maximum take a week to feed our construction equipment", exposes. This will add logistical difficulties: "road shipments work yet, but we ship 50 of our products by rail, and on this side there, everything is blocked." We send five to six trains of 1,300 tonnes per day, including around the Paris region, and it is impossible to switch this volume on trucks. For the company, it is a severe decline in turnover.

The lack of bitumen is also felt in Languedoc-Roussillon, where diesel he also began to diminish. However, alternative sources of supply remain hypothetical. "Because of the rationing existing in Italy, Germany, Belgium or the Netherlands, these circuits are in no way compensate the imminent shortage of France", says Jean-Michel Buesa, President of the eponymous Beziers company and the regional Federation of public works. "Short term, except for improvement, some sites will be arrested." In Languedoc-Roussillon, more than 500 employees may be affected. Affected companies will be forced to technical unemployment measures.

Chemistry: 100 million euros of loss per day

The Union of chemical industries (UIC), which evaluated early in the week its losses in sales to EUR 50 million per day, doubled its estimate yesterday. Addition to supply problems related to the status of the port of Marseille "blockade of the refinery, over some petrochemical sites, and the difficulties of transportation with the limitations of fuel which hinder road transport and for large problems in the rail freight", explains Daniel Marini, Director of Economic Affairs of the Federation.

Air transport: worse than the Icelandic volcano

Social movements that disrupt air traffic since June have now cost more expensive French companies that the crisis of the Icelandic Volcano (188 million euros), yesterday found Lionel Guérin, the President of the National Federation of the aviation market. Subject: delays, diversions or for fuel, supplies of precautionary abroad. Air France estimated EUR 5 million cost of each day of national strike.

The carriers concerned

The National Federation of hauliers anticipates weekend "difficult". With one quarter to one-third of stations out of stock yesterday, warned them trucks "cannot soon carry the fuel and products required to supply stores", yesterday the FNTR.