France To Build On Maritime Expertise By Opening Up Ports

摘要

France, which has a long maritime tradition thanks to its extensive coastlines along the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Mediterranean, is now reforming its ports to improve its economic attractiveness and competitiveness. With a combined volume of 384.7m tons (101.6m tons for the ports of Le Havre and Rouen combined, and 100m tons for the port of Marseille), French ports have great development potential. They rank behind only the ports of Rotterdam in the Netherlands (430m tons), Antwerp in Belgium (200m tons), and Hamburg in Germany (140m tons) in terms of volume.