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.
Mayor of Shanghai visits the CMA CGM tower in Marseille
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Rodolphe Saadé, Chief Executive Officer of CMA CGM Group, has received today, Yong Ying, Mayor of...
Ecoslops announces doubling of production and second innovative technology
Paris, France (PortSEurope), July 4, 2017 – Ecoslops, an innovative technology company that upgrades ship-generated hydrocarbon residues into valuable new...
Marseille to host data and co-location centre
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The World War Two German submarine base Martha at Cap Janet in Marseille will soon host a new data and...
Extension of the wave breaker at Marseille Fos to be completed by August 2017
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – If weather conditions are favourable, the extension of the sea wave breaker (jetty) at French port...
Marseille wants to be part of France’s candidature to host the World Exhibition in 2025
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The city of Marseille and the Port of Marseille Fos will support on July 11 France’s candidature to...
CMA CGM announces new strategy and introduces new logo
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Yesterday, June 28, 2017, the French CMA CGM Group unveiled its new strategy and image. 2017 has been a...
Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...
Event – MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14, 2017
Toulon, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Following the 50th MedCruise General Assembly in Gibraltar (June 14-17), the organisation has announced that...
Corsica Linea prospers with Marseille connections
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Twelve months ago, Corsica Linea took up the challenge of crossing the Mediterranean with precise...
Bayonne port to organise conference on agri-food traffic
Bayonne, France (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – France’s Bayonne port has taken a step further in its strategy of commercial promotion and strengthening...
Drewry expects ONE to become fifth largest container company globally in 2021
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – UK consultancy Drewry Shipping foresees a new wave of mergers and acquisitions in the container shipping...
Event – Medports workshop – July 5 – Marseille Fos port
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Following the success of the first Medports forum 2016, and in accordance with the results of the...
Renaud Muselier and Martine Vassal boycott Marseille port supervisory board meeting
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – In a letter addressed to Jean-Marc Forneri, the president of Marseille port supervisory board, Renaud...
Nantes-St. Nazaire commences quay renovation
Nantes-St. Nazaire (France) June 21, 2017 – The redevelopment of the Prise-d’Eau quay, located near the Louis Joubert lock, has started. It was...
TEN-T – Connecting Europe – Core network corridors
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Networks) envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways,...
Rail freight corridor North Sea-Mediterranean Sea helps Marseille development
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – The rail freight corridor North Sea–Mediterranean Sea (RFC North Sea-Med) is one of the nine most...
The maritime economy and “smart” technology
Marseille, France (PortSEurope), June 13, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen du transport maritime (Mediterranean Institute for Maritime Transport...
France’s Macron seeks review of STX shipyard sale to Fincantieri
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) JUne 12, 2017 – New French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the recently announced deal for Fincantieri of...
Open house for Marseille port J1 for investors
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Marseille port is questioning what to do with J1, an old hangar located in La Joliette, a neighbourhood...
Renfe Mercancías to start Barcelona port-Lyon freight line in Autumn
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2017 – Spanish freight railway firm Renfe Mercancías SA plans to start an international container traffic service...