Marseille oil terminals released
Unravels the conflict in the oil sector. So begins the weekend of All Saints, with special emphasis on roads, twelve French refineries were released on Friday, one after the other. Employees of sites Gonfreville, Dunkirk, Lavera, Feyzin, Donges and Grandpuits successively voted today to end the strike, as well as oil terminals in Le Havre and Fos-Lavera.
"All the refineries in the region have returned to work, so it made no sense to continue" warranted a syndicalist CGT Gonfreville. A Donges refinery voted last Friday afternoon, ending the conflict, the CFDT delegate Guiller Dimitri, for his part stressed the "pride" felt by employees who have risen since October 12 against the pension reform. "It's a pride that the government does not take away," he advised.A conflict that has been hovering for several days the threat of fuel shortages and cost a hundred million euros in the Total group.
The oil will again be routed
In particular, the upturn in oil terminal at Fos-Lavera in the Bouches-du-Rhone, which occurred last this afternoon, was crucial for the proper supply service stations. Despite the gradual resumption of work in the refineries in recent days, six were still unable Friday to resume normal production because crude oil transported via oil terminals. Their work will now be able to resume.
Supply side, if the Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo announced Thursday the opening of 85% of service stations, even though the situation remained tense in the West, Midwest and the Ile-de- France.Condition of anonymity, a large fuel distributor also said to AFP that the number of service stations in difficulties was more like "a station on three." Thursday night, returning to normal, repeatedly promised, was rather planned for early next week.
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