The ports of Le Havre and Rouen are blocked on Wednesday by a " dead ports
" operation
in order to protest against the government's pension reform project, we learned from union sources.
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About 300 dockers, port and territorial, organize the blocking of the port area via 11 blocking points which will be held until 3:00 p.m.
We let light vehicles pass, but not trucks
, ”said Yann Mallet, secretary general of the CGT dockers in Rouen, to AFP.
Stretching over 15 km, the port of Rouen, which today employs more than 18,000 people from the docks to the surrounding processing plants, is the leading grain port in Europe.
Gérald Le Corre, of the CGT departmental union, specified that the blockages would be maintained “
until 3:00 p.m.
Much of the port area is paralyzed.
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The port of Le Havre, the first in France for containers, has been blocked since 6 a.m. according to a leaflet distributed on the site of the port CGT.
The industrial zones of the two Normandy cities were also blocked very early on Wednesday, again according to the union.
Many other ports are at a standstill all over France, such as in Marseille, where demonstrators have been blocking several gates of the large seaport since early this morning.
In Lyon, the Édouard Herriot port has been blocked since 6 a.m. this morning, according to the CGT of the city of Lyon.
The ports of Lille, Nantes, Brest and Bayonne are also affected by blockages.
