- At the call of the CGT, a "dead ports" day is underway in several sites in the country.
- Disruptions and blockages are reported in Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Brest, Le Havre, and Calais.
Launched by the CGT, the "dead ports" day causes major disruptions in several sites this Thursday. The ports of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, but also those of Brest, Le Havre and Calais were at a standstill to fight against the pension reform, we learned from the prefectures and the CGT.
Asked about the situation at the port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, the prefecture confirmed that "the port is at a standstill, it is blocked". The strikers began setting up barricades as early as Wednesday night to block the Donges SFDM fuel depot on part of the port, and this blockade was still ongoing on Thursday morning. Tanker trucks, which could not access the state-owned depot, were parked on the side of the road. Access to the oil depot was blocked by two burning roadblocks, preventing trucks from passing.
The objective is to "maintain pressure on the government and the National Assembly," Fabien Privé Saint-Lanne, CGT delegate at the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges, said Wednesday evening, where the strike is to continue until Friday 13:30 p.m., at which time a new general assembly is to be held.
The situation in Brest, Le Havre and Calais
The port of Brest was also blocked Thursday morning. About fifty strikers, port workers and dockers, were on site. Three containers, installed using carrier equipment, blocked the access route to the port. "There is no entry or exit of goods in the port of Brest today," said Sébastien Léon, a CGT port worker union delegate. A "dead ports" operation had already been carried out by strikers in Brest last week.
In Le Havre, access to port terminals had been blocked for 6 hours by trucks, cranes, tires and pallet fires, according to the CGT federation of ports and docks (FNPD). No passenger handling or handling operations were planned by port agents and dockers until Friday morning. Not a single tanker, not a container ship enters or leaves, nor do ferries and cruise ships.
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In Calais also, the strikers blocked the port at the call of the CGT since 10:30, preventing trucks and private vehicles from accessing ferries to the United Kingdom, said a CGT delegate, Aurélien Delcloy. Trucks were stranded for several kilometres in load shedding zones along roads leading to the port.
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