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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.

Initial budget for Nantes-St.Nazaire turned down by regions

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The budget of the Grand Maritime Port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire was not adopted in its first...

French Smart port members meet in Marseille to adopt projects

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The members of the SMART PORT Steering Committee have adopted the first set of projects to take...

Marseille welcomes MSC Orchestra vessel

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos and the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) have held a press event to...

Miami – Marseille: a win-win deal for the ports

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The economic mission taking place this week in Miami is full of promise for the 12 sectors of...

CGT to take legal action at port of Sète

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – La Fédération nationale des ports et docks (CGT Dockers) is to initiate legal action against the port...

Event: Medports forum – February 7-8, 2018, Marseille

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – After the success of the MEDports forum in 2016 and the MEDports seminar in 2017, the port of...

Port of Sète sees improved traffic in first 10 months of 2017

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The port of Sète ended the first ten months of 2017 with traffic up 3%, with most sectors showing gains....

Bayonne port handles project cargo shipment to Bulgaria’s Burgas harbour

Bayonne, France (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – Bayonne port and the companies that operate in the Basque-French harbour have proved their capacity and...

City of Marseille sends business delegation to Miami

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – An official mission of the City of Marseille, led by Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor and president of the...

Toulon port chosen for submarine support work

Toulon, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, the military port of Toulon will be used for the major...

Marseille Fos hires 70 dockers and innovates in the field of training

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – The five handlers (Portsynergy-Eurofos, Seayard, Sosersid, Sea-Invest & Nicolas Frères)...

CCI managing multiple tasks in Nice port

Nice, France (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – In January 2017, CCI Nice-Côte d’Azur (Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Nice Côte d’Azur)...

Hughes Houzé de l’Aulnoit joins Terminal Link in Marseille port

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Hughes Houzé de l’Aulnoit has been appointed head of Med Europe Terminal and Marseille...

Barcelona port takes part in two trade fairs in France

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Barcelona port has participated in two French fairs dedicated to the transport and logistics sector,...

Forme 10 in Marseille: the biggest dry dock in the Mediterranean now fully operational

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest...

Lyon increases container handling from Marseille port

Lyon, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Since 1997, Lyon has become the advanced port for Marseille for container traffic. Currently, 50% of...

Mediterranean Institute of Maritime Transport ceases activities

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen des transports maritimes (IMTM – Mediterranean Institute of...

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