Marseilles-FosÆ box volume up 3.7% after 10 months
The French port of Marseilles-Fos handled 826,000 TEUs through October, a rise of 3.7 percent compared to the first 10 months of 2006.
Container throughput at the Fos terminals, which handles east/west container services, increased 6.8 percent to 586,000 TEUs.
For the year to date, total port traffic declined 3.5 percent to 80.2 million tons. The port attributed the drop in cargo volume to the continued lower demand in the high volume oil and dry bulk sectors.
Marseilles-Fos? box volume up 3.7% after 10 months
