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.
EU Tender – France – Nice: maritime safety inspection services
France-Nice: Maritime safety inspection services 2017/S 057-105914 Contract notice Services Directive 2014/24/EU Section I: Contracting authority I.1)Name and...
Bayonne port participates in 16th edition of Interpyrenic Cereal Exchange fair
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Bayonne port participated last week as an exhibitor in the 16th edition of Interpyrenic Cereal Exchange fair,...
Barcelona port promotes services at SITL fair
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – France is one of the most significant markets for Barcelona port, while much of the country is part of its...
Israel’s Zim to introduce new network of transatlantic services in April
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Israeli company Zim Integrated Shipping Services plans to introduce its new network of transatlantic...
European Parliament Transport Committee visits the Port of Marseille Fos
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – During a trip to France, the President of the European Parliament Transport Committee Karima Delli led...
Work on the Marseille north passage continues
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Work on the expansion of the North Passage continues. The objective is to facilitate access for large...
Marseille Fos consults local stakeholders
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – With the organization of two public meetings, continuous consultations have entered a new stage in the...
CMA CGM supports Le Carburateur and Marseille startup companies
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – CMA CGM, a leading worldwide shipping group, and le Carburateur, an incubator for small companies in...
France’s Wlife to build warehouse at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Wlife, a property development and rehabilitation company based in Lyon, signed in January 2017 a...
Trade unions accuse Sète port of “organised precarisation” of dockers
Sète, France (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Trade unions accused Sète port of an “organised precarisation” of dockers. Serge...
The Mediterannean Sea continues attracting cruisers
Fort Lauderdale, United States (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – MedCruise presented today to the cruise world gathered in Fort Lauderdale for Seatrade...
CMA CGM launches a new service without any stopover between Morocco and Russia
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – CMA CGM, a leading worldwide shipping group, launches the newly enhanced service AGAX, which will...
France’s CMA CGM container traffic rises 20% in 2016
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM transported a total of 15.6 million TEUs in 2016, up 20%. The rise in...
Companies set up renewable energy cluster at Nantes port
Nantes, France (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – In less than three years, the estuary of the Loire river has become the leading industrial centre in...
2016 Financial Results: CMA CGM
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 12, 2017 – CMA CGM, the French shipping group, has published its 2016 financial results. Volumes shipped in 2016...
French state to get €27.75 million dividend from seaports this year
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 10, 2017 – French major seaports and the autonomous port of Paris will pay a total of €27.75 million ($29.4...
EU parliament delegation visits Toulouse and Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 6, 2017 – A delegation of 11 members of the European Parliament (MEP) met French transport businesses in Toulouse...
Bastia evaluates port pollution levels
Bastia, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) March 5, 2017 – In order to address local concerns about pollution generated by activities at the port of...
GNV launches Barcelona-Nador ferry service
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2017 – Starting next June, the Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) S.p.A. will launch a new maritime...
Full year result at Marseille Fos reflects wide-ranging strategy
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Total 2016 cargo of 81 million tonnes at Marseille Fos was on a par with 2015 throughput in a year...