Marseilles first half box throughput up marginally
The Port of Marseilles-Fos' container throughput increased 3 percent to 435,736 TEUs, in the first half of 2009.
The port said the increase, in an otherwise hard year for ports worldwide, is due to disruption of normal working conditions last year by a strike over government port reforms.
“With the added benefit of new services from MSC, Turkon and Maersk-CMA CGM, the deep sea Fos terminal gained 19 percent, to 338,535 TEUs, for the period, although intra-Mediterranean trades via the Marseilles harbor were down 30 percent to 97,201 TEUs,” the port said.
Overall tonnage at the port fell 13 percent to 41.4 million tons, with dry bulk down 57 percent, liquid bulk down 25 percent and oil and gas volume down 4 percent.
Marseilles first half box throughput up marginally
