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.
Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea attracts interest of “one or two” companies
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca said that there are “one or...
Fincantieri acquires control of STX France
Trieste, May 19, 2017 – Fincantieri S.p.A. has announced that it signed today a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of 66.66% of the share capital...
CMA CGM reports strong performance increase in Q1 2017
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 21, 2017 – The CMA CGM Group has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2017. During Q1 2017,...
Sulphur emissions at Marseille port decline 40% in 2010-2016
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Emissions of sulphur, particularly related to fuel oil, have decreased by 40% between 2010 and 2016 in the...
Occitanie region targets 4.6 million tonnes of cargo traffic at Sète port in 2020
Sète, France (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – France’s Occitanie region revealed a strategy to boost the competitiveness of Sète port. The objective is...
Hapag-Lloyd improves IMEX service between Mediterranean, India, Middle East
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – Hapag-Lloyd has announced the improvement of its IMEX service between the Mediterranean, India and the Middle East...
The truck service area and the Vgas natural gas station operational in Marseille
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 14, 2017 – The dedicated parking area for truck drivers and the Vgas Natural Gas Vehicles (NGV) station on the Mât...
The Rhone CPME visits the Port of Marseille Fos
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 14, 2017 – On 21 April, Christine Cabau Woerhel, President of the Board of the Port of Marseille Fos, hosted the...
Hapag-Lloyd announces update of MGX service
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – Hapag-Lloyd has announced the update of its Mediterranean Gulf Express (MGX) service with the inclusion of a call...
CMA CGM launches updated version of mobile app
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM has released a new version of its mobile application that allows customers to...
Nantes−St. Nazaire Port sends delegation to Morocco
Nantes-St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) May 6, 2017 – At the end of last month, the port of Nantes-St-Nazaire sent a delegation to the Automotive...
Suardiaz extends Morocco ro-ro service
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) May 5, 2017 – Suardiaz, the Spanish shipping and logistics group, is extending its Montoir-de-Bretagne (Nantes)...
Millet SA and Regiorail to operate traction services for OFP Atlantique
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) May 6, 2017 – Millet SA and Regiorail are to set up OuestRail in order to take over the traction services of OFP...
South European maritime ports freight and passenger statistics
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) May 5, 2017 – The latest (2015) available statistical data on freight handling and passenger traffic in ports in...
Marseille Fos publishes 2016 annual report
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) My 3, 2017 – With traffic of 81 million tonnes of cargo, the Port of Marseille Fos is consolidating its position as...
Alkion Terminals signs contract for LBC assets
Amsterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – Alkion Terminals and LBC Tank Terminals (LBC) have announced the signing of an agreement in which...
Nantes port accompanies the Pays de la Loire Regional Authority to China
Nantes, France (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – On April 9, a Pays de la Loire Regional Authority delegation left for a visit to China, including Hong Kong,...