Marseille takes new step forward in containers

Marseille closed the first six months with a maritime throughput of 40.5 million tonnes, appearing to finally reverse the downward trend of the past two years. The southern French port did not exceed 78.52 million tonnes for the whole year in 2014, its worst result in many decades. If the trend over the first six months continues, Marseille-Fos can hope to get back above 80 million tonnes by the end of December.