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.
Sète port to invest €6 million in rail platform overhaul
Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Sète port plans investments worth €6 million ($6.8 million) to expand its railway platform, managing...
Ecoslops announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2018
Press Release – Ecoslops, the cleantech that brings oil into the circular economy, announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2018, approved...
Ecoslops Full-Year 2018 results: strong growth in business; robustness of the company and its business model confirmed
Paris, April 4, 2019 – Ecoslops, the cleantech that brings oil into the circular economy, announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2018,...
Bolloré in talks to sell subsidiary to Maritime Kuhn
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 29, 2019 – French group Bolloré started negotiations with local company Maritime Kuhn to sell the port activities of...
CMA CGM to construct new office high-rise in Marseilles with Bouygues Immobilier
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 27, 2019 – CMA CGM, the global French shipping group, has announced that it will work with Bouygues Immobilier to...
CMA CGM signs two strategic agreements with China State Shipbuilding Corporation
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 27, 2019 – Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping...
China’s Quechen signs a new agreement with Marseille Fos port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – During the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to France, an agreement was signed between the...
Carbon4PUR Project: 14 partners experiment with industrial CO2 recovery
Press Release – Marseille Fos – CARBON4PUR Project: 14 partners experiment with industrial CO2 recovery – March 21, 2019 In a context of...
Nantes port to improve links with hinterland
Nantes, France (Ports Europe) March 22, 2019 – The European Commission has included the Nantes Saint-Nazaire port in the list of major European Union...
Corsica Sardinia Ferries, Blu Navy sign cooperation agreement
Bonifacio, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Corsica Sardinia Ferries and Blu Navy have signed an agreement to allow Corsica Sardinia Ferries...
Brexit: Ports in the Hauts-de-France region innovate with Channel Pass
Press Release – Brexit: Ports in the Hauts-de-France region innovate with Channel Pass – March 6, 2019 In 2018, the company responsible for...
Bordeaux port names Jean-Frédéric Laurent chairman
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Jean-Frédéric Laurent, specialist in international maritime transport, has taken office as chairman of...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France this week
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – President Xi Jinping of China is to pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France from March 21-26, 2019....
MGI and Marseille-Fos Port win the Digital Transformation Award with Ci5
On 13 March, MGI and the Marseille-Fos Port Authority (GPMM) received the award in the logistics category at the Digital Transformation Awards in Paris for the...
Bordeaux port to cooperate with Douala port in Cameroon
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Port Autonome de Douala (PAD – Port Authority of Douala) has signed an agreement with...
Kalmar to supply port equipment to DP World Marseille Fos facility
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Cargotec has reported that its subsidiary Kalmar will supply 20 Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carriers to...
La Ciotat Shipyards tenders premises in LCS Yachting Village
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – La Ciotat Shipyards has started the tendering process for the allocation of 19 premises within the LCS...
Sète port to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Port de Sète’s cruise season expects to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up from 115,000...
Bayonne port gain ground as multimodal platform in 2018
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Bayonne port has developed its role as a multimodal platform and in 2018 recorded an overall growth in...
Royal Caribbean Cruises orders sixth Oasis-class ship from Chantiers de l’Atlantique
Nantes St-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has announced an agreement with French shipbuilder Chantiers de...