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Le Havre

The Port of Le Havre, located in Normandy, France, is one of Europe’s largest and busiest seaports. It is the second-largest commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage, and the largest container port, with three sets of terminals. It can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners. The Port of Le Havre is managed by a state agency called Grand Port Maritime du Havre which is part of HAROPA PORTS.

AACN agency starts Marseille port competitor study

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 28, 2018 – Association des agents et consignataires de navires de Marseille-Fos (AACN – Marseille-Fos...

2M alliance strengthens Mediterranean services 

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2018 – The 2M alliance has announced the strengthening of its services in connections from Asia to Europe and the...

Three Spanish ports among top 10 in Europe in container traffic

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – The container traffic of the 15 biggest ports of Europe registered an average growth of 4.2% in 2017,...

International Fashion Centre MIF68 opens in Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The International Fashion Center MIF68 has been inaugurated in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille...

Algeciras port to start operating its first direct link to Australia

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – A new weekly service operated by France’s CMA CGM and German Hapag Lloyd AG will be handled at the...

CMA CGM introduces improvements of service to West Africa via Algeciras

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – French shipping company CMA CGM has announced the introduction of improvements in its EURAF 5 service,...

Bordeaux port produces a positive response to adverse conditions

Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – For the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Grand Maritime Port of Bordeaux (GPMB), Pascal...

Boluda Lines expands services connecting Spain to Northern Europe

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Boluda Lines has expanded its logistics services for transporting goods from ports in Spain and Portugal...

Hapag-Lloyd includes Algeciras port in EAX service

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2018 – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has announced an update in its service Europe Australia Express (EAX)...

Cruise industry generates €15 million income in A Coruña

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cruise tourism in A Coruña experienced in 2017 a historic year that brought 250,000 people to the city,...

EuroFos breaks a new traffic record with more than 770,000 containers TEUs handled in 2017

Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – For the 4th year in a row, PortSynergy-EuroFos broke a new traffic record with more than 770,000...

Damen Shiprepair wins LNG conversion contract in Nantes.St-Nazaire

Nantes.St-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Holding BV has been contracted by GIE Dragages-Ports to convert the...

Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...

Bordeaux increases contact with China in 2017

Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – Firstly, in Canton (port twinned with Bordeaux Port Atlantique), the ports of Bordeaux and Nantes...

Event: International Forum of Mediterranean Ports of ELMED – December 1-2, 2017

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 27, 2017 – The Port of Sète will host the International Forum of Mediterranean Ports of the ELMED (European...

ESA and CMA CGM offer new training certificate in Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – The new certificate in shipping and logistics by l’École supérieure des affaires (ESA) in...

Edouard Philippe unveils government maritime policy to relaunch French ports

Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – Edouard Philippe, Prime Minister, has detailed the government’s maritime policy to revive the...

Seatrade Europe continues to hold its position as a must-attend event for the industry

Hamburg, 8 September 2017 – Seatrade Europe, the leading trade event for the European cruise and river cruise industry – closed today (8 September...

MSC launches new service connecting Sines port to N Europe, S America

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is planning to launch a new service connecting Portugal’s...

CMA CGM adds Pecem port to SAFRAN service

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 27, 2017 – With the SAFRAN service, the CMA CGM Group will call at the port of Pecem, allowing  the company to...

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