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.
Event – MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14, 2017
Toulon, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Following the 50th MedCruise General Assembly in Gibraltar (June 14-17), the organisation has announced that...
Corsica Linea prospers with Marseille connections
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Twelve months ago, Corsica Linea took up the challenge of crossing the Mediterranean with precise...
Bayonne port to organise conference on agri-food traffic
Bayonne, France (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – France’s Bayonne port has taken a step further in its strategy of commercial promotion and strengthening...
Drewry expects ONE to become fifth largest container company globally in 2021
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – UK consultancy Drewry Shipping foresees a new wave of mergers and acquisitions in the container shipping...
Event – Medports workshop – July 5 – Marseille Fos port
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Following the success of the first Medports forum 2016, and in accordance with the results of the...
Renaud Muselier and Martine Vassal boycott Marseille port supervisory board meeting
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – In a letter addressed to Jean-Marc Forneri, the president of Marseille port supervisory board, Renaud...
Nantes-St. Nazaire commences quay renovation
Nantes-St. Nazaire (France) June 21, 2017 – The redevelopment of the Prise-d’Eau quay, located near the Louis Joubert lock, has started. It was...
Rail freight corridor North Sea-Mediterranean Sea helps Marseille development
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – The rail freight corridor North Sea–Mediterranean Sea (RFC North Sea-Med) is one of the nine most...
The maritime economy and “smart” technology
Marseille, France (PortSEurope), June 13, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen du transport maritime (Mediterranean Institute for Maritime Transport...
France’s Macron seeks review of STX shipyard sale to Fincantieri
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) JUne 12, 2017 – New French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the recently announced deal for Fincantieri of...
Open house for Marseille port J1 for investors
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Marseille port is questioning what to do with J1, an old hangar located in La Joliette, a neighbourhood...
Renfe Mercancías to start Barcelona port-Lyon freight line in Autumn
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2017 – Spanish freight railway firm Renfe Mercancías SA plans to start an international container traffic service...
No road traffic blockage at Valencia port accesses during second strike day
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2017 – The traffic at the accesses to Valencia port was fluid in the first hours of the stevedores’ strike on...
CMA CGM reports improved environmental performance
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – CMA CGM Group, a leading worldwide French shipping group, has reported an improvement in the performance...
Barcelona port to have direct rail connection to France’s Lyon
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Barcelona port will have a new rail freight service with Lyon (France), Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo...
French Port of Sète gives concession for its fruit terminal to Conhexa
Sète, France (PortSEurope) June 2, 2017 – The French port of Sète has given a five-year concession to operate its fruit terminal to Groupe Conhexa, based...
Italian GNV to intensify links Sète-Morocco from June 1
Sète, France (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci s.p.a. (GNV) will intensify the links between French Mediterranean...