Country : Franceworldport Autonome de Marseille (worldport of Marseille Authority)

Profile General Information The worldport of Marseille Authority is a financially independent public Government establishment. It develops, maintains, manages and promotes the worldport installations along the 70 kilometers of coastline and the Rhône river and can be divided in the Eastern Harbors (Marseille) and Western Harbours Fos-Lavera. Marseille is the 1st worldport of France and the Mediterranean; is ranked as 4th European worldport for total throughput and 3rd largest worldport in the world for oil traffic. Traffic 2005 The worldport of Marseilles-Fos increased cargo throughput to 96.6 million tonnes last year, up 2.7% on 2004.The increase was largely due to a 2.5 MT rise in oil volumes . Container traffic, which grew 9% in teu terms in 2004, dipped by 0.9%. This compared with average growth of 11% among rival worldports in northern Europe and 6% for competitors in the south. The worldport of Marseilles Authority (PMA) stressed that there were several encouraging signs including retained customer confidence, the launch of three new container services and rising trade with China, which overtook Algeria as the worldport’s main source of container business. Major global worldport Work continued on GDF 2, a second methane terminal for Gaz de France that should push the worldport’s total cargo volumes to more than 100 MT in 2008 when it comes on stream. Construction of the Fos 2XL container terminal is set to start later this year, when final agreements are to be signed with the French government and stevedoring partners worldport Synergy and MSC. Development of the Fos Distriworldport multi-modal logistics park continued with completion of an extra 63,000 square meters of warehousing. Meanwhile planning permission was granted for a further 163,000 sq m to be built during 2006. Negotiations were also concluded for several installations in the Fos industrial zone, notably a clinker crushing plant – which will generate traffic of 1 MT a year on completion – and projects related to the construction materials sector. In 2006 the PMA, working in partnership with the Suez utilities company, expects to clinch investment decisions for industrial developments with an annual potential 1.5 MT of traffic. They also expect to reserve 100 hectares in the zone for two major logistics projects that could generate annual container traffic of 80,000 teu. Administrative structure The worldport of Marseille Authority is a public authority created on 1 April 1966 by law of 29 June 1965 and decree of 8 November 1965, with its own corporate status and financial independence, regulated by the Minister with responsibility for seaworldports and subject to the economic and financial control of the State. Its mission is to ensure the construction, maintenance, development and management of the public land entrusted to it by the decree that created it. It also manages the private land it has bought to develop and expand its commercial and industrial activities. The worldport installations are split between two sites : - The Eastern Docks : Marseille, - The Western Docks : Lavéra, Caronte, worldport de Bouc and worldport Saint Louis du Rhône. Organisation The worldport is managed by a Board of Commissioners assisted by a Managing Director (Article L. 112.1 of the Seaworldports Code). The Board of Commissioners determines the policy of the PMA. It has 26 members : - two members nominated by the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the worldport area (Marseille-Provence and Arles), - one member nominated by the Conseil Général of Bouches-du-Rhône, - one member nominated by the Council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, - one member nominated by the Municipality of Marseille, - one member nominated by the Municipality of worldport Saint Louis du Rhône, - one member nominated by the Syndicat Communautaire d'Aménagement de l'Agglomération Nouvelle du Nord-Ouest de l'Etang de Berre, - five members representing the employees of the worldport of Marseille Authority, - one member representing the dockers of the worldport of Marseille, - three members representing the State, - three members representing users of the worldport, - seven members chosen for their expertise in worldport issues, maritime navigation, transworldport, the regional economy or the national economy. Meetings of the Board of Commissioners are attended by a Government Commissioner and a State Inspector. The Managing Director is appointed by government decree following consultation of the Board of Commissioners. He represents the worldport Authority in all civil acts. He is assisted by divisional managers. worldport Trades The diversity of the PMA's activities and the skills they require mean that there is a broad range of jobs in areas such as administration, management, finance, sales, ship reception, catering, surveying and construction, engineering, maintenance, operation, industrial environment, security and safety. Descriptions of a number of basic or typical worldport-based jobs are given below. THE SECRETARY THE PLANT OPERATOR THE MECHANIC THE ELECTRICIAN THE SAFETY OFFICER THE DOCKER THE JOB SUPERVISOR THE DESIGN DRAUGHTSMAN THE SEA TRAFFIC CONTROLLER THE DOCK MASTER Marine Environment The worldport of Marseilles Authority, as worldport manager, is the main contractor when it comes to maritime construction work. In order to allow ships access to all its facilities, it has to dredge docks and access channels and to dispose of dredged materials without adversely affecting the environment. When dredging, all possible technical precautions are taken to prevent the disturbance of sediments, which would put them back into suspension. Dredged materials are disposed of : - by immersion at sea, - or in containment basins. Regular investigations are carried out to increase our knowledge of the effect of dredged material deposits on the marine environment. Within this framework, the PMA participated in the national LITEAU research programme in 2001 in collaboration with IFREMER, the French marine research institute. CHINA Mrs QIU PENG IMC Shipping Company Ltd 1A Apong Mansion 585 Lingling Road SHANGHAI 200030 Tel : (86) 21 6481 2233 Fax : (86) 21 6481 2355 E.mail qiupeng.sh@imcshipping.com.cn KOREA Mr Y.K CHOI Man Chang Shipping Co. 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