Shipment blocked at Esso France’s Fos refinery, union says

PARIS (Reuters) – Product delivery sendouts are blocked at Esso France’s Fos-sur-Mer site in the south, while work continues at the company’s northern Port Jerome-Gravenchon site , a CGT union representative said amid a nationwide strikes in the country.

A strike against the government’s planned pension reform in France led to a substantial fall in electricity output and halted deliveries from refineries operated by Esso’s rival TotalEnergies on Thursday.

(Reporting by America Hernandez, editing by Tassilo Hummel)

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