The dry dock n. 10 of Marseilles will be managed by a consortium formed from STX France, Mariotti, Saint George of Port and CNM



In the 2011 port of Marseilles it has enlivened 88,19 million tons of goods, with an increment of 3% regarding 86,10 million tons in the year precedence. The increase is determined by the increase of the liquid bulk volume, while the bulk several sand banks and the goods has recorded a contraction.

The traffic of the goods several is piled to altogether 15,59 million tons (- 1%), of which 9,30 million containerized tons of goods (0%), 4,28 million tons of cargos ro-ro (- 1%) and 2,01 million conventional tons of goods (- 7%). Handling of the container has been pairs to 944.674 teu (- 1%).

The traffic of the liquid bulk has totaled 62,76 million tons (+8%), of which 59,45 million tons of hydrocarbons (+8%) and 3,31 million tons of other liquid bulk (+4%). The bulk sand banks has attested 9,84 million to tons (- 17%), of which 5,71 million tons of bulk irons worker (- 24%), 1,23 million tons of agricultural and food- bulk (+18%) and 2,90 million tons of other solid bulk (- 11%).

In the section of the passengers the traffic has been of 2,33 million unit (+13%), of which 1,52 million passengers of crocieristi ferries (+10%) and 809 thousand (+18%).

While the Harbour Authority of Marseilles has announced of being in negotiations in exclusive right for the release of the relative concession to the dry dock 10, than - with its 465 meters of length and 85 meters of width - he is largest of the French port and in the basin of the Mediterranean, with a consortium constituted from French STX France, society that work the ship yards of Saint-Nazaire and Lorient and that is participated with 66.6% from STX Europe and 33.4% from the French State, from the T.Mariotti Italians and Saint George of the Port, that the homonymous yards of repairs and naval conversions operate inthe port of Genoa, and from the Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNM), the branch of Saint George of the Port that work the basins n. 8 and 9 of the French port ( on 10 May 2010).

Specifying that the consortium previews the possibility to open vital own to the income of shipowners of the crocieristico field, Grand the Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM) has expressed satisfaction for the quality of the offer and the composition of the consortium, than - it has emphasized the harbour authority - it anticipate all the demanded guarantees and it represents the takeover to Marseilles of operators of international level who have a consolidated experience in the working on ships of beyond 250 meters of length.

Moreover GPMM has evidenced that the offer of the consortium allows with the port of Marseilles Fos at the market to create a particularly apt pole of naval repair of the cruises in the Mediterranean, a market - it has remembered the French agency - that will see in the 2014-2015 mass in service of long ships 330 meters that in the western Mediterranean could be accommodated alone in the basin n. 2010 of the marseillaise port. Moreover the activity of the field of the repairs to Marseilles could be widened to the sections of the platforms offshore, the great ships to gassiere and the great portacontenitori ships.

The Harbour Authority has announced that in these days it will start negotiations in exclusive right with the consortium with the objective to arrive to the subscription of the contract next March and to put in service the basin n. 10 at the end of 2014.