“Today we are mobilizing large groups of carriers to help us. So very clearly, our large cargo carriers, we are going to put them around the table – we have already started – to help us lower prices and even repair part of the increases. in raw materials and food for our consumers and in particular for our overseas territories”, declared the Head of State, who was questioned about a possible contribution from companies that have obtained “super profits” due in particular to the post-pandemic recovery or the crisis energetic.
Contribution
Thus, “we have large oil groups that make profits, but not in France. We put them to work so that they lower their profitability and help us with the price of gasoline, but they (the profits) take them abroad”, he explained. .
The government had already called on companies to help mitigate the effects of inflation on households, and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire asked them, for example, to “make proposals, and strong proposals, so that they can return part of their profits to the French”. directly”.
In the transport sector, the giant CMA CGM, the third largest shipowner in the world to have seen its profits inflated by the crisis, thus announced at the end of June a fall of 10% to 20% in the prices of its containers in France. CMA CGM posted a record net profit of $7.2 billion in the first quarter, after a fiscal year 2021 that ended with a profit of $17.9 billion.
Source: BFM TV
