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.
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...
Corsica Ferries executives to acquire Lota family’s stake
Bastia, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – The executives of French ferry company Corsica Ferries plan to acquire the shareholding of the Lota...
Marseille port installs system for power supply to ships
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – A power supply system installed in January 2017 at Marseille port allows ferries to be docked without...
Bouygues Travaux Publics to produce concrete blocks at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – The extension of six hectares of the area of the Principality of Monaco will lead to the construction of...
Suardiaz extends Motorway of the Sea line from Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Vigo port received on Friday the first call of the “Galicia” vessel, which will link the terminals...
France – Ajaccio: Ground investigation work
France-Ajaccio: Ground investigation work 2017/S 067-125637 Contract notice Works Directive 2014/24/EU Section I: Contracting authority I.1)Name and addresses...
France – Port-Saint-Louis: Architectural and related services
France-Port-Saint-Louis: Architectural and related services 2017/S 067-126847 Voluntary ex ante transparency notice Services Directive 2014/24/EU Section I:...
France – La Barre-de-Monts: Reconditioning services of ships or boats
France-La Barre-de-Monts: Reconditioning services of ships or boats 2017/S 067-126396 Contract notice Services Directive 2014/24/EU Section I: Contracting...
France’s Bayonne port participates in FIGAN animal production show
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Bayonne port participated in the 13th annual animal production show FIGAN in Zaragoza, Spain. For Bayonne...
La Ciotat develops local yachting capacity
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – The port of La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône), east of Marseille, which is a luxury yachting destination,...
Bayonne port participates in Hispano-Moroccan maritime meeting
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – Bayonne port has participated in the VI Hispano-Moroccan meeting of the Maritime, Transport and Logistics...
Groupe Charles André open Fos logistics platform
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 2, 2017 – The Charles André Group (GCA) has opened its new 34,000 m² platform in the logistics areas of the...
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,...