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Nantes Saint-Nazaire

Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port is an international multimodal platform, an industrial tool for economic development and a regional developer, and plays a major role in the attractiveness of the Greater West region of France. It is the 4th largest metropolitan port and the leading port on the French Atlantic coast.

St.Nazaire port to receive Russian LNG

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – The LNG terminal at St.Nazaire will soon start receiving vessels loaded with Siberian LNG. In...

Nantes-Saint.Nazaire calls for container train link to Lyon

Nantes-Saint.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The French Atlantic seaport of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire is called for the electrification of...

Baleària still interested in Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. is still interested in the relaunch of the Motorway of...

Initial budget for Nantes-St.Nazaire turned down by regions

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The budget of the Grand Maritime Port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire was not adopted in its first...

France’s first marine wind turbine inaugurated in Saint-Nazaire

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – “I wish Floatgen fair winds and following seas.” With these words Catherine Chabaud, the...

Launch of a French-Italian roadmap to strengthen naval defence cooperation

Press Release, 27 September 2017, Naval Group and Fincantieri Launch of a French-Italian roadmap to strengthen naval defence cooperation Naval Group and...

Fincantieri takeover of STX France agreed

Nantes-St.Nazaire (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – Following negotiations between the French and Italian governments, it has been that Fincantieri...

STX France future set for conclusion

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – The future of the STX France shipyards at a Franco-Italian summit on September. 27, but a further...

Vigo port aims to include four more ports to MoS with Nantes

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has said that the...

Nantes-St.Nazaire builds to increase capacity

Nantes-Saint.Nazaire (France) August 12, 2017 – The port of Nantes-Saint.Nazaire is building a new logistics platform in a move to make greater use of...

Spain considers subsidies for relaunching Gijón-Saint Nazaire MoS

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said that the costs for operators...

Paris government nationalise STX France

Nantes St.Nazaire, France, (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The French government will nationalize the STX France shipyard to keep the ship yards under...

EU Commission requires Belgium and France to put an end to tax exemptions for ports

Brussels, Belgium EU Commission requires Belgium and France to put an end to tax exemptions for ports The European Commission has required Belgium and France...

Port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire becomes a logistic hub for Airbus

Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire, located on the French Atlantic coast, will become a logistic...

Nantes-St. Nazaire commences quay renovation

Nantes-St. Nazaire (France) June 21, 2017 – The redevelopment of the Prise-d’Eau quay, located near the Louis Joubert lock, has started. It was...

France’s Macron seeks review of STX shipyard sale to Fincantieri

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) JUne 12, 2017 – New French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the recently announced deal for Fincantieri of...

Asturias government insists on relaunch of Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – The Minister of Infrastructures of the Principality of Asturias, Belén Fernández, called on the president of...

Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea attracts interest of “one or two” companies

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca said that there are “one or...

Fincantieri acquires control of STX France

Trieste, May 19, 2017 – Fincantieri S.p.A. has announced that it signed today a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of 66.66% of the share capital...

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...

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