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.
France 2030: 13 winning projects for the maritime industrial sector
News Release – Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité – March 29, 2024 Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological...
Kalmar supplies cranes to Med Europe Terminal, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Kalmar has signed an agreement with Med Europe Terminal for the delivery of six Kalmar hybrid straddle...
River access channel to Port 2000 gets green light
Rouen, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – On March 29, the Administrative Court of Rouen rejected an application to suspend work on the river access...
CMA CGM to open Tangram innovation centre, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 5, 2024 – Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of CMA CGM, will inaugurate Tangram, a training and innovation centre...
COSCO SHIPPING calls at Eurofos, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 3, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has started calls at the Eurofos terminal in Marseille as part of the AEM1, MD2 and MED 1...
Ports of Côtes-d’Armor are silting up, dredging required
Paris, France (Ports Europe) March 28, 2024 – The Ports of Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany, are silting up and a turnkey dredging solution is required....
EFIP members discuss developing inland ports
Paris, France (Ports Europe) March 25, 2024 – Today, EFIP members met in Paris for their annual General Assembly meeting. It was hosted by HAROPA PORT...
11 tonnes of cocaine seized by French Navy in the Gulf of Guinea
Brest, France (Ports Europe) March 24, 2024 – The French Navy intercepted a shipment of 10,693 kilograms of cocaine aboard a 20-meter-long Brazilian...
New large cocaine seizure in Le Havre port
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) March 23, 2024 – cocaine seizure in Le Havre, local media reported. The 2,440 packs of cocaine from Guadeloupe were hidden in...
Lhyfe receives grant for hydrogen production plant near Le Havre
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) March 19, 2024 – Lhyfe is set to receive a grant of up to €149 million to construct a green hydrogen production plant...
M&M opens an office near the port of Sète, France
Sète, France (Ports Europe) March 18, 2024 – M&M France has opened an office near the port of Sète, with the purpose of expanding business links...
One tonne of cocaine seized in Le Havre port
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) March 14, 2024 – French customs seized more than 1,000 kg of cocaine in the country’s second-largest port of Le Havre...
Marine geothermal power plant heats and cools in Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 12, 2024 – The marine geothermal power station Thassalia in the French Mediterranean Sea port of Marseille-Fos...
“Hydromer” dredger sails to Port of Sète-Frontignan
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – The “Hydromer” dredger is sailing to the Mediterranean Port of Sète-Frontignan. It was built in the...
Port of Marseille & DEOS project – renewable energy
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – With the Offshore Wind Development (DEOS) project, the port of Marseille Fos aims to build and make...
EU Commission investigates state aid to Corsica ferries
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 27, 2024 – The European Commission has opened an investigation to assess whether state funds granted...
Port of Toulon sees increase in 2023 turnover
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – The commercial Port of Toulon has reported a +6% increase in turnover for 2023. This was despite a...
Greek tanker fined for pollution in Port of Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – A tanker operated by a Greek company being held since Thursday in the Port of Marseille for marine...
French ports: 3.2% less cargo and 13.4% fewer containers in 2023
Paris, France (Ports Europe) February 18, 2024 – French ports that reported their cargo figures for 2023 show a decline of around 5%. On the container...
Szczecin-Świnoujście accepted in Offshore Wind Port Alliance
Swinoujscie, Poland (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – The Offshore Wind Port Alliance, created in January 2023 by the largest maritime wind energy ports in...