Tagged: Marseilles

After a 17-month hiatus, the cruise business is restarting in French ports. With 36 port calls this summer and a maximum of two vessels in port simultaneously, Marseille is also back cruising, but in a safer and greener way and with an even higher quality of service. (more…)

Among a string of new eco-friendly initiatives, the Marseille Fos port authority is to spend €20 million over the next six years to extend shoreside electrical connections for berthed vessels to every ferry, cruiseship and repair quay within the Marseille eastern harbour. (more…)

Christine Cabau Woehrel is leaving her post as CEO of the Marseille Fos port authority with effect from March 12 on completion of her five-year term of appointment. A successor is due to be named in the coming weeks. (more…)

Volumes last year in key areas of activity confirmed Marseille Fos as the leading French cargo and cruise port – a result matched by dynamic progress at its logistics and industrial sites. (more…)

From his balcony above Marseille’s port, Jean-Pierre Eyraud has a prime view of the giant, luxury cruise liners that dock in the city bringing 1.5 million passengers a year. (theguardian.com)

Passenger carryings on Corsica and North Africa ferry services rose 7% to 1.2 million, which almost compensated for cruise numbers dropping 7% to 1.5 million.  Throughput at the leading French cruise port was affected by Croisieres de France ceasing operations and by the repositioning of some US vessels in Asia and northern Europe.  (more…)

A ribbon cutting took place earlier this week to mark the official inauguration of the new Drydock No. 10 in Marseille Port. It marks the official opening of the biggest drydock in the Mediterranean, and one of the biggest in the world. Drydockings at the facility have already taken place with ships from AIDA, Costa and MSC. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The largest dry dock in the Mediterranean — the Port of Marseille’s Graving Dock No. 10 (Forme 10) — is back in operation. Opened in 1975 to accommodate a new generation of ULCCs, the giant dock measures 485 m (1.525 ft) long by 85 m (279 ft) wide with a 10.7m (35 ft) maximum draft above the blocks. (marinelog.com)

Marseille Fos has joined the World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI) and is now set to reduce port dues for ships performing better than required under air pollution regulations. (more…)

The record passenger total of 2.7 million – up 6% – was driven by a 9% rise in cruise numbers to another new high of 1.6m. In 2017 enlargement works will be completed on the Passe Nord port entrance in Marseille to enhance access for mega-cruiseships. (more…)

Passenger throughput recovered from a 13% slump in Q1 to finish on 962,000, matching last year’s first-half performance as the summer season went into full swing. (more…)

Passenger throughput started the year at half-pace, down 13% on a total of 269,000. Cruise numbers fell 16% to 150,000 – with 41 calls as against 48 in Q1 last year – including 55,000 home port passengers. Ferry carryings on the North Africa and more seasonal Corsica services fell 8% to 119,000.

Passenger throughput rose 2% to top 2.5 million for the first time as cruise numbers soared 11% to a record 1.446 million – including 947,000 passengers in transit (+16%) and 499,000 home port passengers (+2%). (more…)

Costa Cruises and MSC Cruises, which were both targeted by the terror attacks in Tunis, Tunisia earlier this year, say they are on alert following the French terror attacks in Paris on November 14th, and may cut short their port calls in Marseille. (bignewsnetwork.com)

Leading French port Marseille Fos has maintained its 2015 growth across all main business sectors with passenger results boosted by a 14% rise in cruise numbers. (more…)

Passenger throughput was down 3% on 948,000 after ferry numbers dropped 9% to 352,000 – North Africa carryings improved 5% but Corsica figures fell by 13%. (more…)

In the first quarter of this year passenger throughput was down 4% to 308,000 due to an unaccustomed blip in cruise numbers, which fell 11% to 178,000. (more…)

Figures just published by the MedCruise ports association show that Marseille is now the Mediterranean’s fifth-largest cruise port by passenger numbers and also the fastest-growing. (more…)