France: Maritime freight transport in the third quarter of 2021

decline (Ro-Ro and liquid bulk with respectively -4.5% and -1.3%). Incoming freight traffic, which represents 44,298,000 tonnes this quarter, is down 3.4% while outgoing traffic, at 25,054,000 tonnes, is up 8.5%. In the third quarter of 2021, freight traffic rose sharply for the ports of La Rochelle (+17.5% with a volume of 2,391,000 tonnes), Nantes-Saint-Nazaire (+11.5% with a volume of 4,760,000 tonnes) and to a lesser extent Haropa (+8.8% with a traffic volume of 20,828,000 tonnes). Conversely, traffic is down significantly for Marseille (-8.2% with 17,930,000 tonnes), Bordeaux (-8.5% with 1,479,000 tonnes) and to a lesser extent, for Dunkirk (-2.0% with 12,140,000 tonnes) and Calais (-1.6% with 9,824,000 tonnes). Information from Le service des données et études statistiques (SDES), Ministère de la Transition écologique