Double digit Fos

A record 1,062,408 teu were handled as the port benefited from the first full year of national port reforms. Meanwhile, cruise and ferry passengers topped 2.4m 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 attributed the performance at Fos to reliable labour relations, further occupancy of the logistics parks and the two private Fos 2XL container terminals coming fully on stream.

The authority also stressed that 2012 was marked by consensus with various civic and professional partners on far reaching schemes involving developments in the Marseilles harbour area and the Fos industrial zone.