Marseille-Fos Port

The Marseille Euro Port ( new own name and the extension of - Autonomous Port of Marseille - Port autonomous de Marseille) released the 1844 discontinued the Old Port of Marseille and the Joliette Basin into its main function, the cruise on the Rhone and the Mediterranean to link. The Autonomous Port of Marseille now ranges from the Etang de Berre and the basin of Fos -sur -Mer to the city center. Autonomous because he is deprived of a State institution of management by the municipality (since 2008, there is a succession plan the status of a "grand port maritime "). An overall impression one gets from the shore when you're driving on the highway A 55 at the coastal road to Marseille into it. Not to be confused with the more well-known port Marseille Euro Europoort, a part of the Port of Rotterdam.

Significant individual plants were or are the

• Port-Saint -Louis -du -Rhône ( historical )
• Port-de -Fos Fos- sur -Mer (including container port, oil terminal )
• Port-de -Bouc
• Etang de Berre ( different terminals, on the eastern edge of the airport)

The port is the fourth largest after Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg port in Europe and the envelope according to the utmost in the Mediterranean. Economic rivals in the maritime transport are especially Barcelona, Genoa, Rotterdam, but because of the increasing global importance of the container trade and the little Italian place Gioia Tauro on the Strait of Messina.

At its hinterland as a port include not only the region also Lyon and the Rhône valley in the industry, over the Southern European Oil Pipeline ( SEPL ), the refineries in Reichstett (Alsace ), Cressier (CH ) and Karlsruhe (D).

Location

Marseille is located on the left bank of the Rhône (Grand- Rhône) and its main estuary on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Since the Rhônemündung for ships is closed, ports were needed for the handling of inland and sea navigation. Marseille itself offered a wide natural harbor, the old town is located at the northeastern end. Upstream are the Iles d' frioul with their leisure Marina ( first quarantine harbor Dieudonné, now Port Friuli ).

To the west the flat landscape in the delta of the Rhône from brackish water marshes is characterized corresponding to the Camargue on the other Rhôneseite. There is the Gulf of Fos -sur- Mer, right on the Rhônemündung. In the northern and eastern part of the Gulf were built major port and industrial facilities.

Neighboring port is in the east of the small town of La Ciotat, also part of the joint management Communauté urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole (30 km). A little further follows the French military port of Toulon (70 km).