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Marseilles Fos reports record box volumes

   Container throughput at the French port of Marseilles Fos rose 13 percent in 2012 – led by a 16 percent surge in deepsea volumes at Fos – for a record 1,062,408 TEUs.
   The port said it benefited from the first full year of national port reforms. Meanwhile, cruise and ferry passenger volumes topped 2.4 million for another all-time best.
   “Marseilles Fos defied the world economic crisis to emerge as one of the few European ports to register double-digit box growth for the year,” the port authority said in a statement. It attributed the performance at Fos to reliable labor relations, further occupancy of logistics parks, and two private container terminals coming fully on stream. – Chris Dupin

Chris Dupin

Chris Dupin has written about trade and transportation and other business subjects for a variety of publications before joining American Shipper and Freightwaves.