French port reforms "expensive"

A rehabilitation plan has been presented for the Port of Beirut following devastating explosion.

In January, CMA CGM and TotalEnergies undertook the first ship-to-container ship LNG bunkering operation in the Port of Marseilles.

France’s three biggest seaports are heavily involved in industrial regeneration, cargo logistics, decarbonisation and energy transformation initiatives as well as building their presence in the container handling market,

HAROPA Le Havre has set aside a budget of €33M for RoRoMax 2, its project to expand and modernise the ro-ro terminal. The port handled 310,000 vehicles in (pre-pandemic) 2019 and the target is 400,000 units by 2025.

The difficult task of converting the HAROPA ports group into a single port covering the whole of the Seine axis corridor is under way.

In late January, Containerships introduced a new weekly feeder service linking Dunkirk with Bristol and Liverpool. Asked about this at Dunkirk’s annual results conference, Daniel Deschodt, CCO and acting CEO, said the new service was not linked in any way to congestion at Felixstowe impeding that port’s gateway role.