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Port Vauban; S. Saint-Goustan; T. Port of Trouville-sur-Mer This page was last edited on 6 February 2017, at 02:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Brest (French pronunciation: ⓘ; [3] Breton pronunciation: [4]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, [5] Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon.
The port generates 41,500 jobs [2] has an annual turnover of €169.5 million [3] and a traffic of €4 billion according to an OECD study. [4] The port is the biggest French port, the third biggest Mediterranean port and the seventh biggest European port, transporting 79 million tons of goods in 2019, [3] making it the 41st port in the world.
Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast (6 C, 43 P) This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 01:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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Port-aux-Français has a shallow seaport which allows the unloading of supply ships (usually the Marion Dufresne) with barges shuttling to the quay. The settlement, in addition to the logistical facilities for its own operation, hosts scientific laboratories ( biology , geophysics ), technical stations (such as meteorology , telecommunications ...
The Old Port is featured on film in both The French Connection and French Connection 2, starring Gene Hackman. Seven Thunders (US title: The Beasts of Marseilles), the 1957 black and white British film regarding Marseille in the Second World War, is set in the Old Port Quarter, and ends with the demolition of the quarter.
Other important cities in the region are Brest, one of the two most important French naval ports, Saint-Malo, an imposing walled city on the north coast, and Vannes, the capital of the Morbihan, with an attractive old town centre. Quimper, the capital of the Finistère, and Saint-Brieuc, the capital of the Côtes-d'Armor, are less important.