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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.

Channel 5 receives the jury’s favorite prize at the Med’INNOVANT competition

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – Channel 5, an information channel and a decision-making service in the port environment integrating...

AIDA Cruises to use LNG supply in Mediterranean ports

Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – AIDA Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation, announced that it will gradually start regular operations...

French government supports CMA CGM LNG fuel announcement

Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – Nicolas Hulot, Ministre d’État, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, and Élisabeth...

CMA CGM chooses LNG for its biggest ships

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – The French container shipper CMA CGM has announced that it will use engines using liquefied natural...

Valenciaport Foundation co-ordinates European Sauron project meeting in Paris

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – The second meeting of the Steering Committee of the SAURON project was taken place in Paris (Scalable...

Port-la-Nouvelle renovates and enlarges its docks to international standards

Port-la-Nouvelle, France (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – The Region is investing in the port infrastructure extension project in Port-la-Nouvelle,...

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...

Marseille – Mediterranean Air Day – the environmental question will prevail in port economics

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – On November 14, 2017, Marseille hosted “Mediterranean Air Day” (Journée...

Corsica Linéa to operate Mostaganem to Marseille service

Mostaganem, Algeria (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – Ryad Bouledjouidja, CEO of Entreprise Portuaire de Mostaganem (the Port Authority of Mostaganem),...

Initial budget for Nantes-St.Nazaire turned down by regions

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The budget of the Grand Maritime Port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire was not adopted in its first...

French Smart port members meet in Marseille to adopt projects

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The members of the SMART PORT Steering Committee have adopted the first set of projects to take...

Marseille welcomes MSC Orchestra vessel

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos and the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) have held a press event to...

Miami – Marseille: a win-win deal for the ports

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The economic mission taking place this week in Miami is full of promise for the 12 sectors of...

CGT to take legal action at port of Sète

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – La Fédération nationale des ports et docks (CGT Dockers) is to initiate legal action against the port...

Event: Medports forum – February 7-8, 2018, Marseille

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – After the success of the MEDports forum in 2016 and the MEDports seminar in 2017, the port of...

Port of Sète sees improved traffic in first 10 months of 2017

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The port of Sète ended the first ten months of 2017 with traffic up 3%, with most sectors showing gains....

Event: Mediterranean Air Day, Ports – November 14, 2017

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – Pierre-Charles Maria, President of Air PACA, and François Alfonsi, President of Qualitair Corse will...

Bayonne port handles project cargo shipment to Bulgaria’s Burgas harbour

Bayonne, France (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – Bayonne port and the companies that operate in the Basque-French harbour have proved their capacity and...

City of Marseille sends business delegation to Miami

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – An official mission of the City of Marseille, led by Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor and president of the...

Toulon port chosen for submarine support work

Toulon, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, the military port of Toulon will be used for the major...

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