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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.
Top 20 ports of Europe by annual cargo tonnage; Port Country City/Cities Body of water Tons Year Port of Rotterdam Netherlands: Rotterdam: North Sea: 435,800,000: 2024 [1] Port of Antwerp-Bruges Belgium: Antwerp, Bruges: North Sea: 277,700,000: 2024 [2] Port of Novorossiysk Russia: Novorossiysk: Black Sea: 161,400,000: 2023 [3] Port of Ust-Luga ...
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.
Pages in category "Ports and harbours of France" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
List of North Sea ports – ports of the North Sea and its influent rivers; List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea; List of ports and harbors of the Arctic Ocean; List of ports and harbours of the Indian Ocean; List of ports and harbors of the Pacific Ocean; Southern Ocean – See Category: Ports and harbors of Antarctica. Iceports
View of Toulon harbour around 1750, by Joseph Vernet.. The 'modern' history of the port began when Louis XII built his Tour Royale at Toulon in 1514. A naval arsenal and shipyard were built in 1599, and small sheltered harbour, the Veille Darse, was built in 1604–1610 to protect ships from the wind and sea.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Fos-sur-Mer ( French pronunciation: [fɔs syʁ mɛʁ] , literally Fos on Sea ; Provençal : Fòs ) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France .
This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year.