Fuels foil Fos
Despite growth in deepsea containers and other key trades, total cargo throughput at the French port Marseilles Fos fell 9% to 20m tonnes to the end of March, a 2MT drop on the first quarter last year.
A quarterly deficit of 13% left the oil-led liquid bulks sector on 12.8MT, with crude oil and petroleum products also 13% down on 12.1MT, almost 2MT less than the first three months last year. Crude imports for national refineries rose 15% to 6.6MT but slumped 64% to 0.69MT for pipeline deliveries to Germany and Switzerland. The envisaged 2013 refining capacity at sites supplied from Fos suggests that crude imports will contract at between 10-15% over the full year. Meanwhile refined products and LNG each dropped 24% for the quarter to 2.9MT and 1.2MT respectively, while LPG was 13% worse on 0.66MT.
Meanwhile passenger traffic rose by 26% thanks to a 152% increase from the cruise sector.
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