{"id":1520,"date":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2005\/11\/01\/strike-ends-as-a-head-rolls\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:30:57","slug":"strike-ends-as-a-head-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/europe\/strike-ends-as-a-head-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike ends as a head rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Involved in the syndicate are Banco Sabadell, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Fortis Bank, HSBC Bank, Santander and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Corporate &amp; Investment Banking, although a total of 22 financial institutions participated in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Port authority workers in Marseilles finally ended their two week strike and it has been confirmed that port director Eric Brassart is to be replaced. Ordered on &#8216;leave&#8217; and apparently instructed not to get involved in further negotiations with the unions, Brassart is widely credited with injecting commercial vigour into the port during his eight-year tenure. The strike ended on the understanding both sides would further discuss grievances over the placing of certain port services in private hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involved in the syndicate are Banco Sabadell, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Fortis Bank, HSBC Bank, Santander and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Corporate &amp; Investment Banking, although a total of 22 financial institutions participated in the operation. Port authority workers in Marseilles finally ended their two week strike and it has been confirmed that port director Eric Brassart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}