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Contest for the allocation of the dry dock n. 10 of the Marseilles, largest of the Mediterranean
The objective of the French Harbour Authority is to assign the bathtub within the end of this year
July 5, 2011
In the course of this month the Harbour Authority of Marseilles will start a contest in order to select the manager of the basin number 10 that, being along 465 meters and wide 85 meters, is the greatest dry dock of the Mediterranean.
The objective of the French harbour agency is to conclude the contest within the end of 2011 and to complete therefore the definition of the order of the area of the naval repairs after the others two great basins of the port of call, number 8 (of 320 for 50 meters) and number 9 (of 250 for 37 meters), are assigned last year genoese to Saint George of the Port that manages them through the branch Chantier Naval de Marseille Sas (CNM) ( on November 30, 2009 and 10 May 2010).
The basin number 10 is constructed at the beginning of years ‘70 in concomitanza with the acceleration of the phenomenon of naval gigantism and has become operating in 1975. However in the next decades the bathtub is used irregularly. In the 2007 Harbour Authority it had indetto a contest for the allocation of the basin, that it was won by the French shipowning group CMA CGM ( on 12 June 2009), but as a result of the economic crisis the project is set aside. To the age it was estimated that for the modernization of the basin an investment of about 350 million euros was necessary.
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In the course of this month the Harbour Authority of Marseilles will start a contest in order to select the manager of the basin number 10 that, being along 465 meters and wide 85 meters, is the greatest dry dock of the Mediterranean.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
