Cranes deposit imposing concrete blocks on the breakwater that has been protecting the Chilean port of San Antonio from the assaults of the swell for a century. Taking advantage of a calm sea, the workers are busy before the start of southern winter in June. The commercial operations of the main Chilean port, such as … Read more
To bypass the giant terminals of maritime containers like Le Havre, more monitored, cocaine traffickers target the hexagonal secondary ports and also drop bundles as the coast approaches, then recovered by accomplices. “A few years ago, we did not see these phenomena”exhibits at AFP Jean-Pierre Stephan, representative of the Union Solidaires des Customs of the … Read more
Thousands of dockworkers returned to work Friday morning in the United States, the day after the conclusion of an agreement in principle between their union and their employers, after only three days of strike, thus lifting a threat to the American economy one month before the presidential election. At the port of Mobile, in Alabama … Read more
Corsica’s ports and airports were still very disrupted this Friday, October 4 morning following the launch on Thursday afternoon of a spontaneous strike by agents of the island’s chamber of commerce, according to the Haute-Corse prefecture and security sources. . This movement followed the cry of anger on Thursday from the autonomist president of the … Read more
A difference of opinion between the Corsican Community and the State on the management of Corsica’s ports and airports aroused the anger of the island’s strongman, Gilles Simeoni, on Thursday, leading to their blocking by a spontaneous social movement. Thursday morning, Alexandre Patrou, secretary general for Corsican affairs (Sgac) who represented the prefect of Corsica … Read more