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.
CMA CGM launches updated version of mobile app
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM has released a new version of its mobile application that allows customers to...
Nantes−St. Nazaire Port sends delegation to Morocco
Nantes-St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) May 6, 2017 – At the end of last month, the port of Nantes-St-Nazaire sent a delegation to the Automotive...
Suardiaz extends Morocco ro-ro service
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) May 5, 2017 – Suardiaz, the Spanish shipping and logistics group, is extending its Montoir-de-Bretagne (Nantes)...
Millet SA and Regiorail to operate traction services for OFP Atlantique
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) May 6, 2017 – Millet SA and Regiorail are to set up OuestRail in order to take over the traction services of OFP...
South European maritime ports freight and passenger statistics
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) May 5, 2017 – The latest (2015) available statistical data on freight handling and passenger traffic in ports in...
Marseille Fos publishes 2016 annual report
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) My 3, 2017 – With traffic of 81 million tonnes of cargo, the Port of Marseille Fos is consolidating its position as...
Alkion Terminals signs contract for LBC assets
Amsterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – Alkion Terminals and LBC Tank Terminals (LBC) have announced the signing of an agreement in which...
Marseille port – the development of inland services
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – The Marseille Fos 2016 annual report gives details of the ports successes in 2016 in developing inland...
Nantes port accompanies the Pays de la Loire Regional Authority to China
Nantes, France (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – On April 9, a Pays de la Loire Regional Authority delegation left for a visit to China, including Hong Kong,...
Marseille port meets Pharma Logistics Club
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 2, 2017 – At the invitation of the Pharma Logistics Club (PLC), Marseille Fos participated in a conference in...
Bastia sees reduced passenger traffic in 2016
Bastia, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – The number of passengers passing through the four airports on the island rose in February to...
EU invests €22.1 million supporting synergies between transport & energy sectors
Brussels, Belgium, April 24, 2017 – EU invests €22.1 million supporting synergies between transport & energy sectors Today, EU Member States...
Nantes port awards inland waterway freight transport deal to CLT
Nantes, France (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Nantes port has awarded a contract for the operation of inland waterway transport of cargo as of January 1,...
Asia-Mediterranean container shipping declines in Jan-Feb 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – According to a recent report by UK consultancy Drewry, container shipping on the Asia-Mediterranean sea...
Alphaliner expects East-West container demand to rise by 5% in April
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – With the launch of new alliances, especially in East-West traffic, as of April 1, the demand for ships and...
Barcelona port to present short sea shipping services at Medfel fair
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 21, 2017 – Barcelona port plans to present its short sea shipping services in North Africa next week at the...
MedCruise welcomes European Blue Growth report
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – MedCruise, the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports, has welcomed yesterday’s announcement by...
Small French ports attract more and more cruise passengers
Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – At Sète, Bordeaux, Honfleur, La Rochelle and Port-Vendres, the number of passenger ships is rising sharply....
STX Fincantieri sign agreement
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – Fincantieri S.p.A. has announced that it has signed with the French State, represented by the Agence des...
CTN considers including Barcelona in Marseille-Tunisia ferry line
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2017 – On April 12, the “Tanit” ferry belonging to Compagnie Tunisienne de Navigation (CTN), which...