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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.

Marseille Fos hires 70 dockers and innovates in the field of training

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – The five handlers (Portsynergy-Eurofos, Seayard, Sosersid, Sea-Invest & Nicolas Frères)...

CCI managing multiple tasks in Nice port

Nice, France (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – In January 2017, CCI Nice-Côte d’Azur (Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Nice Côte d’Azur)...

Hughes Houzé de l’Aulnoit joins Terminal Link in Marseille port

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Hughes Houzé de l’Aulnoit has been appointed head of Med Europe Terminal and Marseille...

Barcelona port takes part in two trade fairs in France

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Barcelona port has participated in two French fairs dedicated to the transport and logistics sector,...

Forme 10 in Marseille: the biggest dry dock in the Mediterranean now fully operational

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest...

Lyon increases container handling from Marseille port

Lyon, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Since 1997, Lyon has become the advanced port for Marseille for container traffic. Currently, 50% of...

Virtuo launches logistics park in the Distriport area of Marseille port

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – VIRTUO, a property development company based in Paris, has signed a sales agreement with the port of...

Mediterranean Institute of Maritime Transport ceases activities

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen des transports maritimes (IMTM – Mediterranean Institute of...

France – China Economic Forum: Marseille, bridge between Europe and Asia

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Usually held in Paris on 12th  Franco-Chinese economic forum was relocated for the first time in...

Local citizens challenge superyacht plan for Sète port

Sète, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – On October 10, 2017, a citizen collective was formed to collect as much information as possible about the...

CIRCLE presents in Barcelona during the 5th Med Ports Exhibition and Conference

Genoa, Italy, 27 October 2017 CIRCLE: “Automation, integration and interoperability along the global Door-To-Door logistic chain: Building transport...

Marseille port’s Graving Dock No. 10 (Forme 10) is back in operation

Marseille, October 20, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille Port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest in the world, becomes...

Bordeaux port introduces new waste collection system

Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Bordeaux Port Atlantique (port of Bordeaux) has introduced a new process for the disposal of waste...

Marfret uses starcool reefers for import of avocados to Spain

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – At the Fruit Attraction 2017 fair French shipping group Marfret has presented  its services for the...

Razel-Bec will build a bridge near future terminal of Cape Janet

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – The Grand Port Maritime of Marseille (GPMM) is preparing for the development of the new Cape Janet...

Bordeaux Port Authority, VNF and EPIDOR sign a charter for development of river tourism

Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) October 21, 2017 – Whilst the port of Bordeaux (Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux) has developed a cruise industry, there...

Port of Sète looks to new developments

Sète, France (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – The Port of Sète (Port de Sète Sud de France) board of directors of the port’s infrastructure have...

France’s first marine wind turbine inaugurated in Saint-Nazaire

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – “I wish Floatgen fair winds and following seas.” With these words Catherine Chabaud, the...

Marseille port to generate energy from seawater

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The port of Marseille is using technology called Massileo, a moderate-temperature water network to...

Ecocean plans to restock French ports with marine life

Montpellier, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Ecocean, a company which helps restore marine ecosystems, plans to replenish marine fish stocks...

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