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.
Joseph Paris awarded Toulon contract
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Nantes-based Joseph Paris has received a contract from the naval base in Toulon for two...
CMA CGM creates Ze Box, its first international startup incubator based in Marseilles
Marseille, France, January 30, 2018 The French global shipping group CMA CGM has announced the creation of Ze Box, its first international startup incubator,...
Marseille port reports increased 2017 traffic
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 29, 2018 – With a growth of 8% (excluding liquid bulk), the port of Marseille Fos has confirmed its winning...
Bayonne port handles one of its largest ships ever
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) January 26, 2018 – “African Magnolia”, one of the largest vessels that has visited the port of Bayonne, unloaded...
Sète port residents question need for new marina
Sète, France (PortSEurope) January 21, 2018 – The local collective “Une marina pour qui? Pour quoi?” (A marina for whom? For what?) of has...
FlexiLoire inland river service starts between Nantes and Montoir-de-Bretagne
Nantes-St.Nazaire (France) January 18, 2018 – FlexiLoire, a new fluvial connection for the transport of heavy goods, containers and various freight...
La Rochelle sees reduces cargo numbers in 2017
La Rochelle, France (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Port traffic in 2017 was marked by another significant decrease, largely due to the 2016 cereal...
Societe Generale joins SEA/LNG coalition
Paris, France (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Societe Generale becomes first financial institution to join growing SEA/LNG coalition, brings ...
EuroFos breaks a new traffic record with more than 770,000 containers TEUs handled in 2017
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – For the 4th year in a row, PortSynergy-EuroFos broke a new traffic record with more than 770,000...
Nantes.St-Nazaire considers cruise port development
Nantes.Saint-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire, the port city located at the mouth of the Loire estuary, is best known for its...
Nantes.St-Nazaire reports increased traffic in 2017
Nantes.St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – In 2017, traffic at Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port amounted to 29.9 million tonnes (Mt), up 17.2%...
Damen Shiprepair wins LNG conversion contract in Nantes.St-Nazaire
Nantes.St-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Holding BV has been contracted by GIE Dragages-Ports to convert the...
Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...
Saint-Nazaire: call for expressions of interest in the pumping station
Saint-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 29, 2017 – The Grand Port Maritime of Nantes Saint-Nazaire has launched a call for expressions of interest...
St.Nazaire port to receive Russian LNG
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – The LNG terminal at St.Nazaire will soon start receiving vessels loaded with Siberian LNG. In...
Corsica Linea predicts excellent year
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Pascal Trojani, head of Corsica Linea, has said that he expects excellent results for the...
Port community of southern Corsica met at the Ajaccio ferry terminal
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Shipping companies, agents, material handlers, ships services, harbor authorities met last...