Thu 27 Mar, 2008
| Posted in: Port authority workers and dockers at the French Mediterranean port of Marseilles took the lead yesterday in the 24-hour national strike, called to protest over the government’s handling of preparations for its national port reform, writes Andrew Spurrier in Paris.
Although several ports were affected by the strike, Marseilles was the most seriously disrupted, as workers brought the port to an almost complete standstill by blocking accesses to terminals at Marseilles itself and at the port’s Fos...