Police in the southern French city of Marseilles said on Friday they had opened access to a major oil depot near the blockaded port of Fos-Lavera, although tankers were still unable to dock at the terminal.
A dockworker strike at Fos-Lavera, France’s largest oil port, has held up fuel supplies to major refineries across France for weeks and oil lobbyists have urged the French government to tap into strategic reserves.