Marseilles box throughput up 5% in Jan-Sept
Container traffic at the French port of Marseilles increased 5% during the first nine months of the year to a total 660,631 teu.
The increase was partly the result of reduced throughput last year following industrial action over the government's port reform but there were signs that the port has started to benefit from a more general recovery in container traffic.
In September, container throughput rose 9%, as traffic at the port's mainline Fos deepwater terminal shot up 40%, compensating for the sharp drop in container activity at the port's city centre eastern docks.
General cargo traffic overall nevertheless fall 7% to 10.8m tonnes over the nine months and by 2% to 1.3m tonnes in September.
Oil and other hydrocarbons fell 9% to 43.6m tonnes during the first three quarters and by 38% to 3.7m tonnes in September.
This latter reduction was largely attributable to supply disruption caused by damage to one of the pipelines operated by southern European pipelines company SPSE at the port, which is linked by pipeline to southern Germany and central France.
The port said that the fall in pipeline throughput could last until the end of the year.
Other liquid bulks were down 17% at 2.3m tonnes, while solid bulks slumped 51% to 5.2m tonnes, principally due to low demand from the local steel industry.
The port's passenger total was up 3% at 1.8m, however, after a strong month of September for the Corsican ferry and cruise sectors.
The increase was partly the result of reduced throughput last year following industrial action over the government's port reform but there were signs that the port has started to benefit from a more general recovery in container traffic.
In September, container throughput rose 9%, as traffic at the port's mainline Fos deepwater terminal shot up 40%, compensating for the sharp drop in container activity at the port's city centre eastern docks.
General cargo traffic overall nevertheless fall 7% to 10.8m tonnes over the nine months and by 2% to 1.3m tonnes in September.
Oil and other hydrocarbons fell 9% to 43.6m tonnes during the first three quarters and by 38% to 3.7m tonnes in September.
This latter reduction was largely attributable to supply disruption caused by damage to one of the pipelines operated by southern European pipelines company SPSE at the port, which is linked by pipeline to southern Germany and central France.
The port said that the fall in pipeline throughput could last until the end of the year.
Other liquid bulks were down 17% at 2.3m tonnes, while solid bulks slumped 51% to 5.2m tonnes, principally due to low demand from the local steel industry.
The port's passenger total was up 3% at 1.8m, however, after a strong month of September for the Corsican ferry and cruise sectors.