Leading French cargo port Marseilles Fos has recorded an exact repeat of its 2010 first-half performance with total January-June throughput of 44.6 million tonnes, while passenger numbers rose 2% to 779,000...
The Marseilles Fos port authority is launching a tender for the use of its drydock No.10 – the largest in the Mediterranean – as a repair facility for the latest generation cruise ships, container carriers and gas tankers...
The Marseilles Fos port authority has completed the transfer of 410 personnel and various equipment to
privatised terminals as required under national port reforms...
National agreements on French port reforms signed on April 15 will come into force at Marseilles-Fos from next month (May 2011) with the transfer of some 400 port authority personnel to private or part-private stevedoring companies.....
Despite strong oil and gas volumes, first-quarter cargo throughput at Marseilles Fos was pegged to 21.8 million tonnes – up 1% on last year - in the wake of domestic and overseas political unrest, which also saw passenger numbers dip 9% to 164,000.
Fos reaches 14,000 teu milestone .…Mediterranean Shipping Company's 14,000 teu MSC La Spezia has become the largest boxship ever handled at Fos Container Terminal.
Marseilles-Fos aims high as strikespeg 2010 growth to 3% - Driven by container and dry bulk volumes, throughput at leading French cargo port Marseilles Fos totalled 86 million tonnes last year – a 3% increase on 2009 despite lengthy nationwide strikes over the government’s port and retirement age reforms.
Marseilles agrees €14m spendon Fos road access.
New cranes arrive for FOS 2XL.
Return to work at Fos and Lavera terminals - The Marseilles Fos port authority has announced that, after a 33-day strike over French port reform legislation, work at the Fos and Lavera oil terminals is to resume from 20.00 hours tonight. Management estimates that it will take about four weeks to clear the backlog of 78 ships
Cargo handled at leading French port Marseilles Fos to the end of May reached 36.6 million tonnes - up 6% on the first five months last year – with container throughput contributing a 16% increase in both tonnage and units… Following a call for tenders last July, the Marseilles Fos port authority has chosen a group led by SNCF subsidiary VFLI to operate and maintain the port’s 110km internal rail system… Fast-expanding container facilities at Marseilles Fos were in the spotlight when the port exhibited at the Transport & Logistics China trade show in Shanghai (June 8-10)…
Throughput at leading French cargo port Marseilles Fos topped 29 million tonnes to the end of April for a 6% increase on the first four months last year, with April traffic underlining the first quarter upturn in container volumes and local steel and chemicals output…
The Marseilles Fos port authority has signed an agreement defining the terms of a 15-year concession for Italian shiprepairer San Giorgio del Porto (SGDP) to operate dry docks 8 and 9…
A new crude oil berth has entered service at Fos to replace a former crude facility that now handles LNG after being re-allocated to the Fos-Cavaou Methane Terminal company…
Container volumes and a revival in local steel and chemicals production helped leading French cargo port Marseilles Fos to total throughput of almost 21.5 million tonnes in the first quarter, a 3% increase on January-March last year
Leading French and Mediterranean cargo port Marseilles Fos - which handled 83 million tonnes last year to rank fourth in Europe - is establishing commercial representation in Brazil to further enhance links with its main trading partner in South America, which currently contributes some 4.5MT a year…. Marseilles Fos is about to host its fourth United Nations TrainForTrade seminar helping to strengthen the port management training capabilities of port executives from French-speaking African nations…
Major growth in Marseilles Fos container volumes to the end of February helped the leading French cargo port to total throughput of 13.5 million tonnes – up 4% on the first two months last year – in a further sign of global economic recovery…
The Marseilles Fos port authority has hosted a meeting of fellow partners in a Mediterranean ports and infrastructure project part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund…
January throughput at leading French port Marseilles Fos suggested signs of recovery in the world economy with a 10% year on year increase in cargo volumes and a threefold rise in cruise passengers. Cargo totalled almost 7.2 million tonnes with increases in all four main categories…
The Marseilles Fos port authority has appointed Dirk Becquart, 45, to the new post of development director with effect from March 15. He has been commercial director at the port of Ghent in his native Belgium since 2006…
Throughput at leading French cargo port Marseilles Fos fell 13.3% to 83 million tonnes last year – compared with 96MT in 2008 – but capital investment soared and most development plans stayed on track despite one of the port’s sharpest-ever trade reversals…