Ports record better times in 2010

Container traffic grew 9% to 953,435 teu, although strike diversions cost the port 107,000 teu, causing it to miss its million teu target with, and the Fos deep-sea terminal bearing the brunt of the strike action where throughput rose by only 2%. Intra-Mediterranean trades via the Marseilles harbour area handled 251,000 teu, a 34% increase.

Annual turnover at the Port rose 2.3% to €175m despite income losses of €3m due to the port’s oil refinery cutbacks and €4m as a result of the strikes. Infrastructure investment fell to €74m (€130m – 2009) as the port completed its share of works on the Fos 2XL container development, which will create two privately operated terminals.

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