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STRIKE * France - Dockworkers Strike at Top French Ports
Second 24-hour strike this month protests government reforms
Le Havre,France -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Jan 11, 2010: -- The loading and unloading of containers stopped on Jan. 11 at France's top container ports, Le Havre and Marseilles, as dockworkers staged the second 24-hour strike in as many weeks to protest government reforms... Cargo movements in five other publicly owned ports have also been hit by the stoppage... The CGT union, which represents the majority of French dockworkers, staged three months of rolling strikes in 2008 in an unsuccessful bid to abort the reforms, has threatened further action if the government does not respond to its concerns over dockworkers' job security... Port authorities warned further strikes will result in ship-owners reducing calls at French terminals and routing their cargo through foreign North European and Mediterranean ports... Separately, Le Havre reported container traffic in 2009 fell 10 percent from the previous year to 2.2 million 20-foot equivalent units and overall cargo shrunk 8.4 percent to 74 million metric tons... (Photo from libcom.org: MSC San Diego: Sixty-seven vessels including thirty-nine tankers stranded at the harbor's entrance)
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