Mar 29, 2023

Today, strikes persist in all branches of activity, among which the Ports and Energy sectors.

Unions have called for a 10th national day of strikes and demonstrations on March 28th. The situation is fully blockaded, and there is little hope for improvement until the Government steps back or opens a political issue.

Le Havre

Port authorities are on strike today, 29/03, from 10:00 to 14:00, affecting locks/port movements. Port workers will be on strike again from 11:00 to 16:00, affecting containers and bulk terminals.

CIM resumed operations but under the below schedule:
Vessel cargo operations for crude and refined products will be performed from Monday, 27/03/2023, 19:30 to Thursday, 30/03/2023, 19:00.

Shore pumping operations to TRAPIL/CEPS pipeline networks will be performed only:
– on Monday, 27/03/2023, with 5 hours window from 19:30 till 00:30 (28/3)
– on Tuesday, 28/03/2023, with a 10-hour window from 14:30 till 00:30 (29/3)
– on Wednesday, 29/03/2023, with a 10-window cycle from 14:30 till 00:30 (30/03)
– on Thursday, 30/03/2023, with a 5-hour window from 16:00 to 21:00

At Marseille / Lavera / Fos port terminals

Lavera / Fos Fluxel (hydrocarbon piers operator) strike has been in force since the 13th of March and is extended until the 1st of April.

Energy Developments

All three major oil ports (Marseille-Lavera-Fos, Le Havre and Donges-St-Nazaire-Montoir) have stopped working.

3 LNG terminals have stopped operations (Fos Tonkin, Fos Cavaou, Montoir). Dunkerque resumed working but will likely stop again at any moment.

Refineries: Oil products expeditions are still stopped in all refineries. According to official sources, 4 of the major refineries even stopped processing totally (Gonfreville-Total/ND De Gravenchon-Esso /Donges-Total /La Mède-Total) and two partly (Lavera-PetroIneos and Fos-Esso). Only Feyzin-Total is processing, but with expeditions blockaded by strikes.

Inchcape Shipping Services press release