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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.

French Smart port members meet in Marseille to adopt projects

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The members of the SMART PORT Steering Committee have adopted the first set of projects to take...

Marseille welcomes MSC Orchestra vessel

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos and the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) have held a press event to...

Miami – Marseille: a win-win deal for the ports

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The economic mission taking place this week in Miami is full of promise for the 12 sectors of...

Event: Medports forum – February 7-8, 2018, Marseille

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – After the success of the MEDports forum in 2016 and the MEDports seminar in 2017, the port of...

Event: Mediterranean Air Day, Ports – November 14, 2017

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – Pierre-Charles Maria, President of Air PACA, and François Alfonsi, President of Qualitair Corse will...

City of Marseille sends business delegation to Miami

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – An official mission of the City of Marseille, led by Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor and president of the...

Marseille Fos hires 70 dockers and innovates in the field of training

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – The five handlers (Portsynergy-Eurofos, Seayard, Sosersid, Sea-Invest & Nicolas Frères)...

Hughes Houzé de l’Aulnoit joins Terminal Link in Marseille port

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Hughes Houzé de l’Aulnoit has been appointed head of Med Europe Terminal and Marseille...

Forme 10 in Marseille: the biggest dry dock in the Mediterranean now fully operational

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest...

Lyon increases container handling from Marseille port

Lyon, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Since 1997, Lyon has become the advanced port for Marseille for container traffic. Currently, 50% of...

Virtuo launches logistics park in the Distriport area of Marseille port

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – VIRTUO, a property development company based in Paris, has signed a sales agreement with the port of...

Mediterranean Institute of Maritime Transport ceases activities

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen des transports maritimes (IMTM – Mediterranean Institute of...

France – China Economic Forum: Marseille, bridge between Europe and Asia

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Usually held in Paris on 12th  Franco-Chinese economic forum was relocated for the first time in...

Marseille port’s Graving Dock No. 10 (Forme 10) is back in operation

Marseille, October 20, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille Port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest in the world, becomes...

Razel-Bec will build a bridge near future terminal of Cape Janet

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – The Grand Port Maritime of Marseille (GPMM) is preparing for the development of the new Cape Janet...

Marseille port to generate energy from seawater

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The port of Marseille is using technology called Massileo, a moderate-temperature water network to...

Ecocean plans to restock French ports with marine life

Montpellier, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Ecocean, a company which helps restore marine ecosystems, plans to replenish marine fish stocks...

CMA CGM announces new incubator in Marseilles

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Rodolphe Saadé, CEO of the French CMA CGM Group, has said that the company will set up a start up a...

CMA CGM installs logistics storehouse in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The French CMA CGM group has opened the first logistics storehouse in Lebanon in the Bekaa valley in...

Marseille’s VASCO2 experiment testing a novel biomass production solution

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The applied research program Vasco2, involving 12 industrial partners in the Marseille Fos industrial...

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