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Drinks on the water in Paris Port

News2 Nov 2023

Sogestran Logistics is making scheduled trips on the Seine in HAROPA Paris Port to facilitate environment-friendly shipments of beverages to...

Mixed bag for Mulhouse-Rhin

News23 Apr 2017

The French Rhine port complex of Mulhouse-Rhin handled 5 Mt in 2016, marginally down on 2015's performance...

Towards revival of the Rhine-Rhone canal

News1 Nov 2012

Voies Navigables de France wants to revive the Rhine-Rhone canal for freight traffic....

GEIE Seine Escaut created

News13 Jul 2010

A new body has been set up to implement the broad gauge Seine-Nord canal, which is set to enter service in 2015-16...

Seine-Nord doubts

News1 Dec 2009

The Class IV Seine-Nord canal project is widely regarded as a matter of future fact and, in some quarters, a commissioning date of 2015 is s...

Seine-Nord Europe tenders called

News6 Apr 2009

Total public sector costs for this massive PPP infrastructure scheme are put at E2.13B.The private sector partners will be expected to contr...

North Sea-Mediterranean waterway?

News1 Mar 2007

The Seine-Nord canal may not be the only jewel in the crown of Voies Navigables de France (VNF). The organisation has not given up on linkin...

Grand waterway scheme moves forward

News1 Feb 2007

For the first time since the 1960s, France is investing in a large scale, inland waterway project. Slated to be operational in 2015, the Sei...

Rhone-Saone barge traffic develops

News1 Jul 2004

Container barge distribution to/ from Marseilles-Fos on the Rhône-Saône system reached 29,000 TEU last year, an 11-fold increase since 200...

Marseille looks to the water

News1 Aug 2002

A new agreement has been signed between the Port Authority of Marseille (PAM), Cie Nationale du Rhone (CNR) and Voies Navigables de France (...

Mixed message for French waterways

News16 Jul 2001

Figures released by Voies Navigables de France (VNF) show that the inland waterways are continuing to recover traffic, with the total up 6.3...

Drinks on the water in Paris Port

Mixed bag for Mulhouse-Rhin

Towards revival of the Rhine-Rhone canal

GEIE Seine Escaut created

Seine-Nord doubts

Seine-Nord Europe tenders called

North Sea-Mediterranean waterway?

Grand waterway scheme moves forward

Rhone-Saone barge traffic develops

Marseille looks to the water

Mixed message for French waterways

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PSA Singapore breaks ground on new supply chain hub at Tuas Port

Will the Chancellor waive the fiscal rules for UK shipping?

Konecranes moves to acquire Peinemann Port Services and Container Handling

Southampton modal shift program helps boost container moves by rail

Port of Gdynia celebrates major rail expansion

Drinks on the water in Paris Port

Mixed bag for Mulhouse-Rhin

Towards revival of the Rhine-Rhone canal

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PSA Singapore breaks ground on new supply chain hub at Tuas Port

Will the Chancellor waive the fiscal rules for UK shipping?

Konecranes moves to acquire Peinemann Port Services and Container Handling

Southampton modal shift program helps boost container moves by rail

Port of Gdynia celebrates major rail expansion

DP World investment jeopardised by UK government snub

DP World to attend UK economic summit after all

Yard density at high levels, says Maersk

Kings of the Netherlands and Belgium open New Lock in Terneuzen

First trains depart on Tanzanian SGR