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 – 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...
MedCruise association meets in Toulon
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The 51st MedCruise General Assembly is taking place 11-14 October 2017 in Toulon, France. During...
CMA CGM announces new incubator in Marseilles
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Rodolphe Saadé, CEO of the French CMA CGM Group, has said that the company will set up a start up a...
Marseille’s VASCO2 experiment testing a novel biomass production solution
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The applied research program Vasco2, involving 12 industrial partners in the Marseille Fos industrial...
UPE13 association visits Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – A delegation of more than twenty entrepreneurs of the UPE13 (Union pour les Entreprises des...
Sète affected by Saipol slowdown
Sète, France (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Saipol has announced that starting in February 2018, all five of its biodiesel production...
Bolloré Ports to develop southern part of the commercial port of Chef de Baie in La Rochelle.
La Rochelle, France (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – On Friday 6 October, the Supervisory Board of Port Atlantique La Rochelle appointed Bolloré Ports...
The image of Marseille port improves according to survey
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – On behalf of the port of Marseille Fos, an independent company has carried out a survey of 500...
DP World to operate Sète terminal from early 2018
Sète, France (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – P&O Ports, a subsidiary of the UAE’s DP World, will begin to operate the container terminal in...