French port candidates

Paris-based logistics park developer Virtuo Property has signed an agreement with the Marseilles Fos port authority for construction of a multi-user facility of almost 70,000m2 at Distriport, close to the Fos container terminals

Ship repair dry dock No 10 in Marseilles, out of use since 2000, is now back in service after a 2-year renovation project

Evergreen has resumed direct calls at Marseille Fos for the first time in 11 years, replacing a slot arrangement within the CKYHE alliance by adding its own ships to those of Cosco, K Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin calling at Fos on the Asia/Mediterranean/northern Europe rotation

Marseille Fos is aiming to speed ship call procedures with the introduction of Neptune Port, a fully automated information system that simplifies and harmonises administrative procedures for ship calls

Prologis has laid the foundation stone of a turnkey building for Cedilec, the logistics arm of France’s second biggest hypermarket chain E Lelcerc, in the Le Hode Logistics Park of the Port of Le Havre

Container traffic at Marseille-Fos increased 8% year-on-year in 1Q/2015 to 312,820 TEU