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- DRIVING TIME AND REST PERIODS (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006)[10]

This regulation establish a common set of EU rules for maximum daily and fortnightly driving times, as well as daily and weekly minimum rest periods for all drivers of road haulage and passenger transport vehicles, subject to specified exceptions and national derogations. The aim of this set of rules is to avoid distortion of competition, improve road safety and ensure drivers' good working conditions within the European Union. Main points of the law are: Daily driving period shall not exceed 9 hours, with an exemption of twice a week when it can be extended to 10 hours and total weekly driving time may not exceed 56 hours and the total fortnightly driving time may not exceed 90 hours. Breaks of at least 45 minutes every 4 and half hour.

- ATP(ACCORD TRANSORT PERISSABLE)[11]

Even if it dates back to the 1970, this agreement has been adjusted through the years and still today is used for the transport of perishable food. Every vehicle has to be geared with an ATP certificate. The ATP Agreement establish: the technical characteristics of vehicles used for the transport of deteriorating foodstuffs and the temperatures to be observed during transport of deteriorable foodstuffs. The ATP explain also the ways to calculate the K coefficient which is the coefficient that describr the ability to keep the temperature constant inside a vehicle and to limit heat exchanges with the outside.

KEYWORDS

HBEFA(Handbook Emission Factors for Road Transport), ADEME(L’Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie), Hygiene Package, Health Control Plan, HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points), (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006), K COEFFICIENT.

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

- RHENUS LOGISTIC[12]

The Rhenus group is one of Europe's leading logistics service companies with a turnover of 4.8 billion EUR. Rhenus has business locations at 350 sites and employs 24,000 people. Rhenus has to do also with controlled temperature freight and it works in many countries in which works STEF. For example since June 10th, Rhenus Freight Logistics has opened a new branch in the Center-Val de Loire, bringing its branches in France (Paris-Garonor, Angers, Toulouse, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Dijon and Montargis) to 7 locations.

- TRANSALLIANCE[13]

Transalliance (3500 employers, 560m turnover) provides Europe-wide terrestrial transport and logistics solutions to the steel, automotive, food, retail and chemistry sectors. The 6th of January 2017, the company has signed the Charter for Sustainable Urban Logistics (LUD). The charter, set up by the Paris City Council in 2013, aims to control urban logistics in order to limit its impact on the environment, this could have a positive impact on the transalliance business.

- DACHSER[14]

DACHSER Group is a german logistics company, founded in 1930, with its headquarters in Kempten, it is one of the world market leaders in system logistics. Its turnover is 5.6 bilions, and employs 25000 people. This year the company to response to a 25% increase of its transportation business, it has expanded and modernized our historic site in La Verrie reaching from 7,800 m² a size of 18,600 m²

KEYWORDS

TRANSALLIANCE, DACHSER, RHENUS LOGYSTIC, LUD, FOOD FREIGHT

TECHNOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE

- Renault Trucks, stef and carrefour draw a positive review of Midlum 100% electrical of 16 tonnes

For the past 18 months, logistics specialist STEF has been testing an experimental 16 tonne all-electric vehicle under actual operating conditions for Carrefour France. Developed by Renault Trucks and based on a Midlum and in partnership with IFP Energies nouvelles and PVI as part of a project financed by the ADEME, it has covered 16,000 km, delivered 600 t of goods and been greatly appreciated by all concerned.[15]

- LE CENTRE-VILLE DE LILLE DÉSORMAIS LIVRÉ PAR STEF ET CITELIV EN VÉLOVANS ÉLECTRIQUE[16]

STEF has decided to entrust to CITELIV the daily delivery in the city center of Lille of fresh and ultra-fresh food products intended for its customers merchants and restaurateurs.

The city center of Lille now delivered by STEF and CITELIV in electric bikevans.

With this partnership, CITELIV and STEF are implementing urban logistics that are simple, fast, totally green and as close as possible to their end users.

- Aboard the Piana, the new flagship of La Méridionale

The Piana is also a laboratory of innovations, especially in environmental matters, since La Méridionale has chosen to fulfill the criteria for its classification as a "own ship". This voluntary approach requires strict environmental criteria, in particular for the control and reduction of polluting emissions in the sea and in the air, verified by Bureau Veritas. In 2009, La Méridionale also won an ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system, which it is currently the only one to hold in the Mediterranean.[17]

E REPUTATION

- Strike at STEF Transport

The French refrigerated transport company STEF Transport has more than 15,000 employees in several European countries. The Vendée branch has approximately 140 employees, including 70 drivers in the Essarts.

On Friday, they were about twenty, especially drivers and wharf agents, to strike, as in some thirty other sites in France. The mandatory annual negotiations have just ended and employees have only increased by 0.5%: "The smallest in four years. Yet the group's profits increased by 4.9 million from 2013 to 2014, "explains Yoann Jadaud, union delegate CGT. "[18]

- STEF Clermont Ferrand on Strike since September 16th

For several years the CGT elected representatives have been asking the management about the bad working conditions on the quay. (lack of staff, employees not replaced, stress, long days, management problems, etc.)

The wharves are exhausted. Therefore, the elected CGT are calling on management. Management has promised to intervene for several years. Unfortunately, between words