French ports are headed for paralysis-union

PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) – The French port union, part of the CGT federation, warned on Thursday that ports could be crippled in a stand-off with the authorities over reforms.

A 24-hour strike at France’s biggest oil port of Fos-Lavera disrupted on Thursday the traffic of four oil tankers while strikers at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire port blocked nine ships.


“Ports are headed for paralysis,” the CGT said in an open letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “We ask you to intervene so that the project is delayed and transformed,” the union said, adding that it was better to have a reform that was understood and backed than an endless struggle.

Reuters