Fos Fast Starts 2006
With strong growth in almost all trade sectors, cargo throughput at the Port of Marseilles-Fos totalled 16.42m tons to the end of February, marking a 12.4% increase on the first two months of last year.
Helmut Werner, MD of the JWP project company aiming to get the terminal into operation by about 2010, told MJ, ‘We want to start building this year if possible, in order to have the first 1,000m pier section, transport links and required areas ready for operation for site concession holders Eurogate by the end of 2009’.
Container volumes rose 5% to 142,000teu, with east-west services through the Fos terminal contributing 95,000teu. Container tonnage was up 11% to 1.49 MT, helping general cargo surge by 9.4% to 2.57 MT. Sharing the balance with ro-ro traffic, conventional trades improved by 17% on the back of steel coil exports.
MJInformation No: 21997
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