He didn’t arrive safely. A ferry connecting Portsmouth to Saint-Malo, carrying greater than 500 individuals, largely British, couldn’t dock this Monday morning within the privateer metropolis attributable to a social motion, we discovered from the transport firm Brittany Ferries.
This morning, “the ship” Brittany “, which was due to arrive in Saint-Malo, could not dock due to a social movement on the part of the dockers,” Brittany’s communication division informed AFP. Ferries, confirming data from the native press.
About thirty dismissed dockers
Brittany Ferries determined to divert “Brittany” to Cherbourg the place it arrived at Four pm, based on the identical supply. On board have been 549 passengers, all British besides for 2 individuals, and 177 autos.
The 258 passengers of one other boat, which was to make the connection from Saint-Malo to Portsmouth, lastly left “mainly from the port of Caen”, with a departure round 4.30 pm, based on the identical supply.
Round thirty dockers acquired their dismissal letter at the start of the month after the choice, on the finish of June, of the Saint-Brieuc industrial courtroom to pronounce the liquidation with out resumption of exercise of the corporate Saint-Malo Manutention (SMM), which employed them.
