“Welcome to board!” As the site of the General of Lake Geneva Navigation says. Since May 1, it was a well -known Valaisan in his canton, who has resumed the management of the CGN and his 250 employees. After spending ten years at the head of the cantonal mobility service, Vincent Pellisier rebounded in this position, where he replaces Pierre Imhof, retired at the end of the month.
In the fifties, Vincent Pellissier has a long political journey within the PDC, in the city of Sion, then engineer in the State of Valais. In an interview given to the newspaper “Le Temps”, he summed up these ten years spent monitoring Valais mobility with his colleague of natural dangers Raphaël Mayoraz: “Ten years of stones on the roads”.
From now on, he will have to monitor the waves, the capricious currents of Lake Geneva and remain attentive to the storm opinions. The man knows the canton of Vaud well. He spent many years at the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne, where he made a doctoral thesis on seismic risks.
When taking over the Rudder of the CGN, Vincent Pellissier sketches the projects he intends to defend. He is thinking of for example to introduce rates at half an hour, he wishes to rethink the quays, which “cannot serve only to sell tickets”, and he wants to work on the interconnection between the company’s boats and other public transport. “The CGN is a nugget which only asks to prove to itself”.
To do this, he will be able to count on the president of the CGN, the socialist Benoît Gaillard, who will enter the national council next week, replacing Roger Nordmann.
