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.
Corsica Linea gets contract to operate services linking mainland France to Corsica
Bastia, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – Corsica’s government has assigned to the shipping company Corsica Linea the contract to ensure...
Marseille Fos completes test of Vasco2, a project to convert industrial fumes into biofuel
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – After three years of testing in a real environment in the heart of the industrial-port area of Fos,...
Vigo port aims to boost its motorway of the sea and bring it to Northern Europe
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2019 – Vigo port and shipping company Suardíaz are developing a project that can improve the viability of the motorway...
Marseille Fos port renews UNCTAD agreement
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 26, 2019 – Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary General of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and...
Corsican port workers strike blocks Bastia harbour on June 23
Bastia, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 24, 2019 – A strike of Corsican port workers paralysed the port of Bastia for the whole day on June 23. The...
Marseille port gives ESI Awards to environmental shippers
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, Hervé Martel, President of the Executive Board of the Port of Marseille...
Fincantieri and Naval Group sign a joint venture agreement
News Release – Fincantieri and Naval Group sign a joint venture agreement – The “Poseidon” project takes shape – June 14, 2019 Following...
Ci5: the first Cargo Community System in the world to integrate Blockchain technology
News Release – Ci5: the first Cargo Community System in the world to integrate Blockchain technology – June 13, 2019 MGI worked with Thales to...
French business delegation visits Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2019 – A delegation of French businessmen has visited Valencia port as part of a promotion by la Cámara...
Marseille port part of Rhône-Saône-Méditerranée transport study
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – A new study has made it possible to estimate the development potential of river transport in the...
Maersk to enter Traxens’ capital
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 28, 2019 – Maersk plans to join CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) as a key shareholder and customer...
Groupe Adeo to establish a new continental logistics platform in Marseille port
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 26, 2019 – Groupe Adeo, a leading DIY and home improvement organisation, is to establish a new continental logistics...
CMA CGM orders 50,000 Traxens container trackers
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 23, 2019 – CMA CGM has ordered the acquisition of 50,000 Traxens trackers which that...
La Ciotat Shipyards approves €70 million financing plan for new platform
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – The Board of Directors of La Ciotat Shipyards has approved a €70 million ($78.67 million) financing plan...
Marseille Fos port names executive and supervisory board members
May 6, 2019 – Port de Marseille Fos Former port of Le Havre managing director Hervé Martel has started work as interim managing director of the...
Marseille port’s new president takes office
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) May 6, 2019 – The former director of the port of Le Havre Hervé Martel took office as president of Marseille port,...
Corsica ports’ ferry traffic to Italy, mainland France declines in 2018
Bastia, France (Ports Europe) May 2, 2019 – Corsican ports handled a total of 1.37 million ferry passengers on services to Italy in 2018, down 1.5%,...
P & O Ports withdraws from Sète container terminal project
Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – P & O Ports, part of Dubai-owned DP World, is reported to be withdrawing from the container terminal...
Barcelona port to participate in MedFEL fair for 9th year
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – Barcelona will participate for the ninth year in a row in the Mediterranean fruit and vegetable...
Corsica Sardinia Ferries to launch Trapani-Toulon service on April 21
Trapani, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2019 – Italian company Corsica Sardinia Ferries plans to launch a service linking Sicily’s Trapani port to...