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.
Brexit: Ports in the Hauts-de-France region innovate with Channel Pass
Press Release – Brexit: Ports in the Hauts-de-France region innovate with Channel Pass – March 6, 2019 In 2018, the company responsible for...
Bordeaux port names Jean-Frédéric Laurent chairman
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Jean-Frédéric Laurent, specialist in international maritime transport, has taken office as chairman of...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France this week
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – President Xi Jinping of China is to pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France from March 21-26, 2019....
MGI and Marseille-Fos Port win the Digital Transformation Award with Ci5
On 13 March, MGI and the Marseille-Fos Port Authority (GPMM) received the award in the logistics category at the Digital Transformation Awards in Paris for the...
Bordeaux port to cooperate with Douala port in Cameroon
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Port Autonome de Douala (PAD – Port Authority of Douala) has signed an agreement with...
Kalmar to supply port equipment to DP World Marseille Fos facility
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Cargotec has reported that its subsidiary Kalmar will supply 20 Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carriers to...
La Ciotat Shipyards tenders premises in LCS Yachting Village
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – La Ciotat Shipyards has started the tendering process for the allocation of 19 premises within the LCS...
Bayonne port gain ground as multimodal platform in 2018
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Bayonne port has developed its role as a multimodal platform and in 2018 recorded an overall growth in...
Royal Caribbean Cruises orders sixth Oasis-class ship from Chantiers de l’Atlantique
Nantes St-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has announced an agreement with French shipbuilder Chantiers de...
Jean-Pierre Chalus appointed General Delegate of the Union of Ports of France
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – Jean-Pierre Chalus has been appointed Délégué Général (General Delegate) of L’Union des...
Marseille port develops maritime digital gateway
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The port of Marseille-Fos has announced the construction of new subsea cable landing infrastructure...
Marseille port announces winners of Smartport Challenge
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Grand Port Maritime of Marseille (GPMM) has announced the winners of the Smartport Challenge have...
European Investment Bank loans Ecoslops up to €18M
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – The EU’s European Investment bank (EIB) is to load €18 million ($20.37 million) to the...
EU: Agreement on first ever multi-annual fisheries management plan in Western Mediterranean
February 2, 2019 – European Commission The European Parliament and the Council have reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposal establishing a...
Marseille Fos and Strasbourg port authorities agree to develop multi modal links
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – The Marseille Fos and Strasbourg port authorities have signed an agreement to strengthen the...
Bordeaux port sees reduced cargo in 2018
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – Bordeaux Port Atlantique recorded overall cargo traffic of 7.05 million tonnes in 2018, down 2.9% on...
“French Smart Port in Med” launches website
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – A new website has been launched to promote “The French Smart Port in Med”. The French...