In the aftermath of the 10th day of national mobilization on Tuesday, the disturbances will continue to exist in certain sectors this Wednesday, to protest against the pension reform. Thus, SNCF is still impacted, despite a slight improvement in traffic conditions, some airports will also be affected, as will refineries. The garbage collectors of Paris will put a break on their strike. Here is an overview of the disruptions to expect.

The SNCF plans on Wednesday for an improvement on the main lines, the TER and the Paris suburbs, with in particular 4 out of 5 TGVs in circulation, on the 23rd day of a renewable strike against the pension reform.

SNCF Voyageurs plans to maintain 80% of its TGV Inoui and Ouigo on Wednesday, two-thirds of its Intercités and three-quarters of its TER, a spokesperson told Agence France Presse on Tuesday. Night trains will timidly start running again and traffic will be “near-normal” on Eurostar and Thalys.

On the Ile-de-France rail network, train traffic will improve markedly, lines C, D, L and R remaining the most disrupted with 2 out of 3 trains. Management also plans to run 3 out of 4 trains on average on its part of RER A – as well as the RATP on its part – and on line N. It provides for 4 out of 5 trains on line H. The service will be normal, or almost, on RER B and E, as well as on lines J, K, U, T4, T11 and T13, the P line having a more or less disturbed service depending on the branches. Still in Ile-de-France, traffic should be normal on the RATP network, except for the RER A.

The situation in the refineries should not settle this Wednesday. On Tuesday, less than 7% of gas stations were dry. The most affected department is now Mayenne (50% of stations in shortage of at least one fuel). The southern departments are still among the most affected, in particular Haute-Garonne (41%) and Bouches-du-Rhône (39%). Shortages are beginning to reach Ile-de-France, in particular Val-de-Marne (44%) and Essonne (37%).

At TotalEnergies, the Normandy refinery is shut down. The employees voted to renew the strike until Thursday 1:00 p.m., according to a CGT delegate. At the Donges refinery (Loire-Atlantique), shipments are interrupted, according to management. Same thing at the La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône), where shipments remain blocked.

At Esso-ExxonMobil, the shutdown of the Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon refinery (Seine-Maritime) continues and shipments were still blocked Tuesday morning, according to management. Regarding the Fos-sur-Mer refinery, it continues to operate in an “adjusted” manner, shipments having made it possible to avoid a production stoppage due to full tanks. The PetroIneos refinery in Lavéra (Bouches-du-Rhône) is still shut down and its shipments blocked, according to the CGT.

“No requisition is in progress in the depots and refineries at this time”, specified around 4 p.m. this Tuesday the Ministry of Energy Transition.

The administration had asked the airlines to cancel preventively Tuesday and Wednesday 20% of their flights at Paris-Orly, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux. She reiterated her request for around 20% of flights on Thursday (from Orly, Marseille, Toulouse) and Friday (from Orly, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse).

Beyond airports, work stoppages by air traffic controllers affect en-route air navigation centers (CRNA, management of aircraft transiting through French airspace), with repercussions for all European traffic.

EDF management reported production cuts made by the strikers on Tuesday morning, of the order of 8,030 MW, the equivalent of eight nuclear reactors (out of the 56 in the country). The group had 21.5% of strikers at midday, a decline in participation compared to March 23 at midday (25.3%). On the gas side, the strike was renewed “until the end of the week” in all three LNG terminals of Elengy, a subsidiary of Engie.

At Storengy, another subsidiary of Engie which manages underground gas storage, three of the eleven storage sites in France are shut down according to the CGT, which refers to the sites of Chémery (Loir-et-Cher), Céré- la-Ronde (Indre-et-Loire) and Beynes (Yvelines).

The fourth LNG terminal in France, managed by the Belgian group Fluxys, should resume service on Wednesday morning, after a 24-hour strike.