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Marseilles Box Boost
The Port of Marseilles has posted a 9% increase in container throughput during the first four months of this year. The main growth came at Fos container terminal, where east-west volumes rose 11% to 197,000 teu. The Marseilles terminals handling north-south trades saw a 4% improvement to 105,000teu.
Ted Sangster of Milford Haven Port Authority said the planning regime too often gave disproportionate weight to environmental considerations, leading to costly delays and unreasonable rejections of development plans which ports wished to bring forward. He has called for improved dialogue between ports, politicians and statutory bodies to develop a better understanding of the needs of ports and of the high environmental standards that they work to.
Container tonnage was up 10% at almost 3 million tonnes.
MJ Information No: 19614
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