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Marseille

Marseille is a Mediterranean seaport-city in Southeast France, on the Gulf of Lion (golfe du Lion): second largest city in the country and a major port; it is managed by Grand Port Maritime de Marseille-GPMM (Marseille Fos Port Authority). Marseille is the home of CMA CGM, a global container transport and logistics company.

EuroFos breaks a new traffic record with more than 770,000 containers TEUs handled in 2017

Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – For the 4th year in a row, PortSynergy-EuroFos broke a new traffic record with more than 770,000...

Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...

Construction of Jupiter 1000 project starts in Marseille

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – On December 18 in Fos-sur-Mer, Thierry Trouvé, Managing Director of GRTgaz and Christine Cabau...

In 2019, the port of Marseille will experiment with green gas

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – A consortium of industrialists led by GRTgaz will experiment for three years with a process to...

Conference issues call for Marseille-Genoa to join Ten-T transport corridor

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 17, 2017 – Philippe Tabarot, transport officer at the Paca regional council, Joan Amoros, president of the...

Alonso Group participates in the last FERRMED conference in Marseille with its Global Logistics Plan

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 17, 2017 – A representative of the Alonso Group participated in the last conference organised by FERRMED, which...

Marseille Fos port attends SIFEL trade show in Agadir

Agadir, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – In November 2017, representatives of the port of Marseille Fos attended the 15th edition of the...

Marseille makes further logistics space available

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos is to make an additional fifty hectares on the Feuillane area, in...

Costa Group commits to Marseille port

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – The Costa Group, the leading tourism group, the No. 1 cruiser in Europe has renewed its commitment to...

Members support FEPORT guidelines

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 2, 2017 – APM Terminals, Contship Italia, EUROGATE, HHLA (Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG), Hutchison Ports and...

Boluda France sees reduced towage business in Marseille

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Boluda France, a provider of a range of port services, including towage, has been critical of growth...

Hapag-Lloyd introduces calls at Livorno port within MSE service

Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has launched calls at the port of Livorno within its MSE service, which...

European Commission publishes “Delivering Ten-T, Facts & Figures September 2017”

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – The document “Delivering TEN-T – Facts and Figures September 2017” summarises key data...

Channel 5 receives the jury’s favorite prize at the Med’INNOVANT competition

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – Channel 5, an information channel and a decision-making service in the port environment integrating...

AIDA Cruises to use LNG supply in Mediterranean ports

Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – AIDA Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation, announced that it will gradually start regular operations...

French government supports CMA CGM LNG fuel announcement

Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – Nicolas Hulot, Ministre d’État, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, and Élisabeth...

CMA CGM chooses LNG for its biggest ships

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – The French container shipper CMA CGM has announced that it will use engines using liquefied natural...

Edouard Philippe unveils government maritime policy to relaunch French ports

Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – Edouard Philippe, Prime Minister, has detailed the government’s maritime policy to revive the...

Marseille – Mediterranean Air Day – the environmental question will prevail in port economics

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – On November 14, 2017, Marseille hosted “Mediterranean Air Day” (Journée...

Corsica Linéa to operate Mostaganem to Marseille service

Mostaganem, Algeria (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – Ryad Bouledjouidja, CEO of Entreprise Portuaire de Mostaganem (the Port Authority of Mostaganem),...

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