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 – European Maritime Day – Poole, UK, May 18-19, 2017
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 -The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual meeting point for Europe’s community of maritime...
Marseille Fos holds promotion event in Lyons
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – The association uniting the Port of Marseille Fos stakeholders chose Le Sucre in the Confluences...
Ship circles for 24 hours off Bastia port due to poor weather conditions
Bastia, France (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – A total of 163 passengers were stranded in a ship off Bastia, Corsica, for 24 hours. The Mega Smeralda...
Barcelona port awards contract for promotion of services in southern France
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has awarded a contract for the promotion...
Marseille port cargo traffic remains stable in 2016
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Marseille port generated a cargo traffic of 80.9 million tonnes in 2016, almost unchanged on the...
Marseille signs port agreement with Conakry
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 22, 2017 – The Autonomous Port of Conakry, the capital city of Guinea in west Africa, and the port of...
Occitania regional president to appoint former minister as president of Sete port
Sete, France (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – The president of the French region of Occitania, Carole Delga, announced that the former Minister of...
OFP Atlantique almost hits annual cargo traffic target set for 2018
Nantes, France (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – French company OFP Atlantique, owned by La Rochelle and Nantes ports, together with Euro Cargo Rail,...
Mediterranean ports join forces to attract container traffic
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Authorities at ports in the Mediterranean area agreed to form an organisation specifically designed to...
Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European...
Bordeaux container terminal project is still at standstill
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Presented three years ago, the relaunch of operation of the Verdon container terminal at Bordeaux port is...
Blohm+Voss to open refit facility for megayachts in the Mediterranean
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 30, 2016 – Blohm+Voss has announced today that it has won the tender for the set-up of a new maintenance and refit...