Translate the following English sentence to French:
"For us, competition is a way of increasing services, i.e. we need to get more traffic on to the railways, especially freight traffic, which is the real sore point, if we are to prevent railway services from shrinking yet further."
Pour nous, la concurrence est un instrument d'augmentation du rendement et il faut donc augmenter le trafic ferroviaire, en particulier par le biais du transport de marchandises, le domaine le plus sensible, afin que les services des cheminots ne soient pas en constante diminution.