Last year the traffic of the goods in the port of Marseilles has grown of 3% to 86 million tons



In the 2010 traffic of the goods in the port of Marseilles it is piled to 85,99 million tons, with an increment of 3% on the 2009 (year in which the traffic the traffic was dropped of 13% regarding 2008).

The recorded progression last year is determined by the consisting resumption of solid bulk (+40%), that it has overwhelmed the bending totaled in 2009 (- 40%), and from the several increase of goods (+9%) that they have more than compensated the recorded decrease the year precedence (- 4%). In ulterior contraction (- 3%), instead, the liquid bulk that already in the 2009 was dropped of 10%. Sul forehead of the passengers, against a total decrease of 2% of the traffic because of the reduction (- 11%) of the traffic with the Corsica, with a total of about 700 thousand unit the cruises has shown a progression of 8% regarding 2009.

In particular, in the 2010 traffic of the goods several it has been attested to 15,80 million tons (+9% on 2009). In the field of the container 953,435 teu (+9% are enlivened). In the section of the rotabili the traffic has been of 4,3 million tons, with an increment of 6% to which they have contributed the increase of the volumes transported from the line with Turkey (Pendik/Ambarli) of Turkish company U.N. RO-RO and the increase of the traffic with Tunisia that is gone up to 1,3 million tons, quota never reached in the past decade. The goods conventional is piled to 2,1 million tons, with an increase of determined 21% from the increase of the producing exports of iron and steel.

In the segment of the solid bulk tons (+40% are enlivened 11,82 million). The bulk irons worker is increasing of 63%. The decrease of 3% of the liquid bulk is caused by the bending is of the gas of liquified oil that of the crude and refined oil. The liquified natural gas, with a total of 5,5 million tons, has recorded an increment of 9%. In increase (+2%) also the bulk chemistries and foods.

Commenting the achieved results of traffic in 2010 from the French port of call, the Harbour Authority of Marseilles has found that the total increment of totaled 3% last year places the port of Marseilles Fos to above of the medium increase of traffic (+1%) recorded from the French ports, but the increment is however inferior to the medium increase of +7.7% of the European ports. The harbour agency has specified that at the end of the first semester of the 2010 trend of increase of the traffic to Marseilles, with a +8%, it was analogous to that of the European ports, but the series of strikes that have blocked the activity of the French port of call and the bending the steel question has determined a slow down of five points in the second half of the year of the year.

The president of the surveillance council of Grand the Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM), Patrick Daher, has explained that the objective of the agency is to carry to term within the next April own reorganization previewed from the law of reform of the ports to the aim to guarantee the reliability of the services of the port of Marseilles. "I will have time then - he has added Daher - to reunite all the actors who concur to the destiny of the port, it is that economic one that social and political, in order to construct tomorrow with the port. Creed firmly that Marseilles Fos can and must rise to the level of important harbour cities as Singapore, Amburgo and Shanghai. With the development of the world-wide commerce, the ports are becoming a focal node of activity, are the new portals of the planet. The protagonists of Marseilles Fos have not still made own this ambition, but I want to discuss with they and to reach a real local pact for the development".