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France is a country in Western Europe. The Mediterranean Sea coastline is known as the Côte d’Azur or French Riviera and is around 885 km long. The top seaport on the coastline is the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille. The Port of Marseille Fos is a multipurpose, multi-channel port with infrastructure to handle all types of traffic. Thanks to its geostrategic positioning, at the heart of the Euro-Mediterranean area, and its quadrimodality (road, rail, river and pipelines), it is positioned as one of Europe’s southern gateways. West of Marseille is the Port of Sète, and east of Marseille are a number of smaller ports focussed on tourism and yachting.

M&M opens an office near the port of Sète, France

Sète, France (Ports Europe) March 18, 2024 – M&M France has opened an office near the port of Sète, with the purpose of expanding business links...

One tonne of cocaine seized in Le Havre port

Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) March 14, 2024 – French customs seized more than 1,000 kg of cocaine in the country’s second-largest port of Le Havre...

Marine geothermal power plant heats and cools in Marseille port

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 12, 2024 – The marine geothermal power station Thassalia in the French Mediterranean Sea port of Marseille-Fos...

“Hydromer” dredger sails to Port of Sète-Frontignan

Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – The “Hydromer” dredger is sailing to the Mediterranean Port of Sète-Frontignan. It was built in the...

Port of Marseille & DEOS project – renewable energy

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – With the Offshore Wind Development (DEOS) project, the port of Marseille Fos aims to build and make...

EU Commission investigates state aid to Corsica ferries

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 27, 2024 – The European Commission has opened an investigation to assess whether state funds granted...

Port of Toulon sees increase in 2023 turnover

Toulon, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – The commercial Port of Toulon has reported a +6% increase in turnover for 2023. This was despite a...

French ports: 3.2% less cargo and 13.4% fewer containers in 2023

Paris, France (Ports Europe) February 18, 2024 – French ports that reported their cargo figures for 2023 show a decline of around 5%. On the container...

Szczecin-Świnoujście accepted in Offshore Wind Port Alliance

Swinoujscie, Poland (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – The Offshore Wind Port Alliance, created in January 2023 by the largest maritime wind energy ports in...

Work starts on electrification of Le Havre Cruise Terminal

Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Last week, work started on the electrification of Le Havre Cruise Terminal. Also, known as cold...

VINCI wins contract from HAROPA for power work in Le Havre

Paris, France (Ports Europe) February 2, 2024 – A consortium of VINCI Energies and VINCI Construction subsidiaries has won a contract to deliver a...

H2V and Vallourec sign partnership agreement

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 31, 2024 – Vallourec, a world leader in premium tubular solutions, and H2V, part of the SAMFI-Invest group, have...

HAROPA cargo traffic down -4.5% in 2023

Paris, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2024 – The HAROPA ports handled 81.3 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, down -4.5% on the previous 12 months....

Port of Marseille, cargo down, revenue up in 2023

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 22, 2024 – In 2023, the Port of Marseille handled 72 million tons of cargo, down -7%. All segments recorded...

Marseilles’ Eurofos has reached the milestone of 10 mln containers

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 22, 2024 – Last November, Eurofos crossed the threshold of 10 million containers handled since the start of its...

HAROPA introduces drones

Paris, France (Ports Europe) January 18, 2024 – The French port company HAROPA has introduced the use of drones in its daily activities. Drones are now...

Modalis acquires Altech, France

Aix-en-Provence, France (Ports Europe) December 27, 2023 – France Modalis Group, expert in intermodal logistics solutions, acquired Altech Engineering to...

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