France
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.
Germany set to submit proposal for Beirut port rebuild
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 2, 2021 – Local sources in Germany reported this week that Berlin plans to submit a proposal for the reconstruction...
Total to supply LNG to MSC Cruises’ liners in Marseille
Geneva, March 25, 2021 – MSC Cruises and Total announced today a supply agreement for approximately 45,000 tons per year of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)...
CMA CGM with impressive 1.47 billion euro profit in 2020
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 19, 2021 – The French shipping and logistics powerhouse CMA CGM Group has reported a net profit of $1.75 billion...
Marseille Fos: the 2020-2024 strategic plan approved
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 12, 2021 – On March 5, the supervisory board of the port of Marseille Fos approved its strategic plan for the...
Synergy consolidates its cross-border service with south-west France
Synergy, the logistics operator of the Hutchison Ports group, consolidates its intermodal service between the Hutchison Ports BEST Terminal (Barcelona) and the...
Gasum obtains LNG distribution license in France
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 11, 2021 -The Nordic energy company Gasum has obtained a distribution license for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the...
Ukraine invites French business to take part in construction and privatization
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba during his working visit to France held a meeting of the business council with representatives of large and...
Higher prices and container shortages in the next months
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2021 – The container shipping industry needs overall rate levels to increase, and this would be a central...
CMA CGM with more LNG powered containerships
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2021 – The French shipping and logistics powerhouse CMA CGM Group said that it will dedicate six liquefied...
CMA CGM creates air freight division, buys four Airbus A330-200F freighter aircrafts
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) February 14, 2021 – France’s CMA CGM Group is stepping up its strategic development in logistics by creating a specialised...
Ecoslops – 2020 turnover and significant events
ECOSLOPS – 2020 TURNOVER AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS • Financial year 2020 strongly impacted by the effects of the sanitary crisis, but alsoheightened by :•...
France’s Haropa ports end 2020 with a traffic of 108 million tonnes, down 6%
In a very difficult global economic context, HAROPA ended the year 2020 with a global maritime and river activity of 108 million tonnes, down 6% compared to...
Investment continues in Marseille Fos port despite cargo fall in 2020
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – Earlier this week, Marseille Fos announced reduced cargo numbers for 2020, the first decline after six...
Marseille Fos port reports total cargo traffic in 2020 down over 12%
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 26, 2021 – Last year, the southern French port of Marseille Fos recorded 69 million tons of cargo, compared to 79...
Port of Sète Sud de France launches tender to expand port logistics capacity
Sète, France (PortSEurope) January 26, 2021 – The port of Sète and acquired land to extend its vocation of port logistics and will launch a call for...
Cartagena port starts to Ro-Ro service to Toulon, southern France
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 20, 2021 – Consignee Agencia Marítima Blázquez, with the cooperation of FROET, has started a weekly Ro-Ro...
France’s Recy group sign recycling study contract with Beirut port
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) January 18, 2021 – The Port of Beirut has signed an agreement with the Rey Group of France to prepare a study on recycling...
Yang Ming sets up subsidiary in France
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 7, 2021 – Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, a Taiwanese shipping company, has established a new subsidiary...
La Méridionale offers new Ropax service between Marseille and Tangier ports
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 5, 2021 – The French shipping group, La Méridionale, has started a new Ropax service between between Marseille...
CMA CGM Group expected to restart bookings from Asia to North Europe on December 28
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 23, 2020 – French shipping CMA CGM Group is expected to restart bookings for cargo from Asian ports to Northern...