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.
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...
Air PACA publishes report on air quality in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – Air PACA, an air pollution monitoring organisation, has published the a dossier on air quality in...
PROVIRIDIS awards companies’ environmental efforts
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – PROVIRIDIS has awarded three transport companies for their investments and the use of liquefied...
CMA CGM launches Morocco Express ro-ro service
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – The French CMA CGM Group, a leader in container shipping, is launching a service connecting Morocco...
MGI: Channel 5: artificial intelligence for ports of the future
Press release , October 4, 2017 Channel 5: artificial intelligence for ports of the future, Awarded best innovation in logistics at the Port of the Future...
Launch of a French-Italian roadmap to strengthen naval defence cooperation
Press Release, 27 September 2017, Naval Group and Fincantieri Launch of a French-Italian roadmap to strengthen naval defence cooperation Naval Group and...
Fincantieri takeover of STX France agreed
Nantes-St.Nazaire (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – Following negotiations between the French and Italian governments, it has been that Fincantieri...
DP World chairman to visit Sète port
Sète, France (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – Carole Delga, President of the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region and Jean Claude Gayssot,...
Visit of the Club TOP 20 to the port of Marseille Fos
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – Christine Cabau Woehrel, President of the Board of Directors of the Port of Marseille Fos, has...