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.
EU parliament delegation visits Toulouse and Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 6, 2017 – A delegation of 11 members of the European Parliament (MEP) met French transport businesses in Toulouse...
Bastia evaluates port pollution levels
Bastia, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) March 5, 2017 – In order to address local concerns about pollution generated by activities at the port of...
GNV launches Barcelona-Nador ferry service
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2017 – Starting next June, the Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) S.p.A. will launch a new maritime...
Full year result at Marseille Fos reflects wide-ranging strategy
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Total 2016 cargo of 81 million tonnes at Marseille Fos was on a par with 2015 throughput in a year...
Med ports unite on southern gateway alternative
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 25, 2017 – Ports from around the Mediterranean coast have agreed to form a specific organisation to promote the...
Medlink ports establishes its status as the southern corridor to Europe
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 217 – At the general meeting held on 31 January at the port of Marseilles Fos head office, the members of...
EKOL launches regular line linking Izmir to Paris via Sète port
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Turkish company EKOL has started operating a regular line connecting the Izmir port to France’s...
BMP to build warehouse at Bayonne port
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) February 15, 2017 – Bayonne port keeps receiving more and more larger ships. This requires port operators to undertake...
CMA CGM upgrades northern Europe and eastern Mediterranean Sea service
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 2017 – CMA CGM, a leading worldwide shipping group, is pleased to announce the new upgraded service offer NC...
Bordeaux port launches “Gironde XL” development plan
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – Bordeaux port has launched its “Gironde XL” development plan, designed to increase the...
Marseille port to start construction of two container terminals
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – After preparatory work and studies in 2016, the construction site for the two container terminals of...
France’s CMA CGM names CEO
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 9, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM has appointed Rodolphe Saade, the son of the company’s president,...
Europe Technologies and Chantier Naval de Marseille sign MOU
Paris, France (Ports Europe) February 10, 2017 – During the Euromaritime event in Paris, Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNM) signed a MOU with Europe...
DP World reports 3.2% volume growth in 2016 and 6.0% volume growth in 4Q2016
Dubai, UAE (Ports Europe) February 7, 2017 – DP World Limited handled 63.7 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of...
Algeria’s ENTMV to launch Mostaganem-Barcelona service
Mostaganem, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 6, 2017 – State-owned ferry company Entreprise Nationale de Transport Maritime de Voyageurs (ENTMV) is to...
OTC presents Propriano port plans
Propriano, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) February 2, 2017 – Ean-Félix Acquaviva, the president of l’Office des transports de la Corse (the...
French environmental organisation calls for rapid introduction of LNG as marine fuel
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Presenting new elements of its survey on air pollution from maritime transport, France Nature...