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The Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (French for 'French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea') or Ifremer is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France. A state-run and funded scientific organization, it is France’s national integrated marine science research institute.
The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is a French voluntary organisation founded in 1967 by merging the Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (founded in 1865) and the Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons (1873). Its task is saving lives at sea around the French coast, including the overseas départments and territories.
Alain Vidalies was Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries (Secrétaire d'État chargé des Transports, de la Mer et de la Pêche) from 2014 to 2017. [1] The post was a junior minister of cabinet rank within the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.
The General Secretariat for the Sea (French: Secrétariat général de la Mer, abbreviated SGMer [1]) is a French government agency attached to the Prime Minister of France's Office. The mission is to exercise control, evaluation and forecasting within the framework of France's public policies concerning the sea and the littoral.
Each overseas department is the sole department in its own overseas region (French: région d'outre-mer) with powers identical to the regions of metropolitan France. Because of the one-to-one correspondence, informal usage does not distinguish the two, and the French media use the term département d'outre-mer (DOM) almost exclusively.
Chantiers Navals Français was a French shipbuilding company founded in 1917 located in Blainville-sur-Orne in the port of Caen. [ 1 ] The company mainly built merchant ships but also built destroyers and submarines for the French Navy between 1924 and 1933 and the destroyers ORP Wicher and ORP Burza for the Polish Navy .
La Seyne-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [la sɛn syʁ mɛʁ]; lit. "La Seyne on Sea"; Occitan: La Sanha), or simply La Seyne, is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. La Seyne-sur-Mer, which is part of the agglomeration of Toulon, is situated adjacent to the west of the city.
Fos-sur-Mer is situated about 50 km (31 mi) north west of Marseille, on the Mediterranean coast, and to the west of the Étang de Berre. The city has 6 km (3.7 mi) of sand beach. The city has 6 km (3.7 mi) of sand beach.