The fuel trucks left the TotalEnergies depot in Mardyck, near Dunkirk (north), shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday, the first in more than two weeks, following a requisition order that forced striking employees to go to work.
The Flanders depot, which supplies nearly half of Hauts-de-France, has not delivered fuel since September 26, causing major supply difficulties since early October in the region.
The Hauts-de-France prefecture estimates that at least half of service stations are unavailable.
Following the Esso-ExxonMobil site in Normandy on Wednesday, the government decided to requisition this TotalEnergies depot on Thursday. The North Prefect has issued an order forcing a team of six employees to go to work, which runs until Friday at 6:00 am. Another could be calmly enacted.
2km queues
Two hours after the arrival of the first team of requisitioned employees, the trucks left the warehouse and took the road without incident, in the presence of two CRS vans, an AFP journalist said, while the strikers remained gathered in a picket line around half a minute. mile away
A general meeting is scheduled for 6:00 a.m. on Friday, at the shift change, to decide on the continuation of the movement, following negotiations scheduled for Thursday at 8:00 p.m. between TotalEnergies management and the unions, Clément Mortier told AFP. General Secretary of FO.
In its decree, the prefecture highlights that the strike has generated queues of up to 2 kilometers, creating dangers for road traffic and friction between motorists, and that “over time, shortages weaken vulnerable people.”
Typically, one hundred trucks with an average of 30,000 liters of fuel leave the TotalEnergies site in Mardyck every day.
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Source: BFM TV
