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 terre de pêches – new organisation to support fishermen
Paris, France (Ports Europe) October 9, 2024 – Seven producer organizations representing 1,000 companies and around 5,500 fishermen are establishing...
BZ Group strengthens presence in the Rouen port area, HAROPA PORT
News – HAROPA PORT – Maison Bleue terminal – October 4, 2024 A new strategic step for the extension of Maison Bleue terminal operated by the...
Egyptian SCZone delegation visits France
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 7, 2024 – Senior management from the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) have been on a promotional tour of France...
Piriou delivers two new tugs to Port of Saint-Malo
St. Malo, France (Ports Europe) October 3, 2024 – The shipbuilder Piriou has delivered two new OST 22 tugs to EDEIS Ports de Saint-Malo & Cancale,...
Marseille port’s DEOS project open for public consultation
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 2, 2024 – From October 14 to December 23, the public is invited to discuss the opportunity, characteristics and...
France: Total port cargo traffic – Q2 2024
Paris, France (Ports Europe) September 25, 2024 – The Ministry of Ecological Transition (Ministère de l’Écologie) has published cargo statistics...
France: cargo traffic by port – Q2 2024
Paris, France (Ports Europe) September 25, 2024 – Traffic at the Port of Marseille rebounded in the second quarter of 2024; +9.1% after -10.6% in Q1 2024...
French ports report stable cargo traffic in Q2 2024
Paris, France (Ports Europe) September 25, 2024 – In the second quarter of 2024, cargo passing through major French metropolitan commercial ports...
French port of Nantes wants to join wind industry
Nantes St-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) September 25, 2024 – The port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire wants to build the required infrastructure to house a wind...
Éole, the Assembly Platform for Tomorrow’s WindTurbines: Launch of the Consultation Process
News Release – Nantes-Saint Nazaire port – September 23, 2024 Making plans for the provision by 2030 of new infrastructures tailored to the...
Anti-narcotics office opened in Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 23, 2024 – French OFAST (L’office anti-stupéfiants, anti-narcotics office) has opened a nine-officer branch...
193 kg of cocaine seized in Le Havre port
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – 193 kg of cocaine was seized by the police near the French port of Le Havre on September 11. Authorities...
Over 9.3 tonnes of cocaine seized in Le Havre in Jan-Aug 2024
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) September 11, 2024 – Over 9.3 tonnes of cocaine were seized in the French port of Le Havre in Normandy since the beginning of...
French Port of Caen to be dredged
Caen, France (Ports Europe) September 10, 2024 – The Saint-Pierre basin of the Port de Caen-Ouistreham is to be dredged and polluting sediment removed...
Tender issued for Sardinia-Corsica Ro-Pax service
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 10, 2024 – A tender has been published for a maritime connection between Santa Teresa di Gallura...
Port of Villefranche-sur-Saône set for development
Lyons, France (Ports Europe) September 5, 2024 – Managed by the Beaujolais Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Port of Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône)...
51 kg of cocaine seized in Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 29, 2024 – 51.8 kg of cocaine was discovered in a container at the French Grand Port Maritime of Marseille, the...
Port of Marseille Fos handled total cargo traffic of 34.8 Mt in H1 2024
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, the Port of Marseille Fos handled total cargo traffic of 34.8 million tonnes...
HAROPA sees total cargo up over 8% in H1 2024
Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, HAROPA PORT’s total maritime cargo traffic was 41.95 million tonnes (Mt),...
Anti reservoirs protest blocked briefly La Pallice terminal of La Rochelle port
La Rochelle, France (Ports Europe) July 21, 2024 – Demonstrators who blocked the La Pallice agricultural export terminal of the French Port Atlantique La...