Box traffic at Marseilles port surges 15 pc

The French port of Marseilles handled 79,755 TEUs in November, an increase of 15 per cent compared to the same month of last year.

In the first 11 months of 2010, the port saw its accumulative container throughput rise by nine per cent year-on-year to 880,200 TEUs.

From January to November, total cargo traffic handled at the Port of Marseilles increased by three per cent to 78.3 million tonnes, setting it on track to overtake last year's total of 83 million tonnes in spite of a 33-day strike at its oil import terminal.

General cargo volumes rose by nine per cent during the first 11 months of the year to 14.5 million tonnes, and dry bulk traffic grew by 42 per cent year-on-year to 10.6 million tonnes, on the back of higher imports for the steel industry, according to Exim News Service.
(Source:www.transportweekly.com)