Transport. An Invoice of €80 Million: Heat and Fires This Summer Are Expensive for SNCF
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DECRYPTAGE - The group's CEO took stock of the summer period, marked by heat temperatures leading to cascading disturbances on the French rail network.
The SNCF experienced a particularly difficult summer, with twice as many delays and train removals as in 2025, due to climate change. All this costs the group a lot.
While the Intercities have been particularly affected by extreme weather events, the attendance of the TGVs has matched its record this summer and that of the TERs has made further progress, announced Jean Castex on Thursday 1st October. And for the Christmas reservations launched on Wednesday, it is also of the never seen.
"We had 80 million euros this summer of loss of revenue" due to the cancellation of trains and the compensation of passengers suffering delays, said Thursday the CEO of SNCF Jean Castex at a press conference on the balance sheet of a summer called "unstandard". "Since the beginning of the year, there has been 180 million euros of loss of profits, not to mention the costs of repair on the network", he said. These figures will weigh on the results…
The delays and cancellations of trains due to heat and fires cost 80 million euros in July and August to the SNCF, which is in order to adapt its railways and railway lines.
The disruptions caused by the heat and fire caused the public company to lose EUR 80 million in turnover compared to its forecasts, in addition to the claims for compensation for passengers who have not yet been made, and the repairs on the railway network.
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