France Commits 260 Million Euros To Five Ports For Floating Wind
France has committed 260 million euros to five ports to prepare them for floating offshore wind construction, in an allocation expected to unlock around a billion euros of investment.
BW Ideol brings in French partner for Mediterranean floating wind factory
BW Group's floating wind company BW Ideol has brought French construction group NGE into its Fos3F floating wind foundation factory project on France's Mediterranean coast.
CMA CGM names Notre Dame, the largest containership ever to fly the French flag
CMA CGM has held a naming ceremony in Le Havre for the Notre Dame, the largest French-flagged containership ever built and the first of ten next-generation vessels.
Brussels clears $72bn French offshore wind support scheme
The European Commission has approved a major French state support scheme for offshore wind, clearing the path for a large build-out across three seas.
Dunkirk breaks ground on second container terminal
Dunkirk has begun building a second container terminal, a €303m project centred on a 1,000-metre deepwater quay designed to roughly double the port's box handling capacity.
France fines shadow-fleet tanker owner EUR 1m over false flag
French prosecutors have fined the owner of the shadow-fleet tanker Tagor EUR 1m after the vessel was detained in the Atlantic on suspicion of sailing under a false flag. The 2004-built tanker was stopped by French autho…
France brings detained Deliver tanker to Marseille in flag probe
France has brought the detained tanker Deliver to an anchorage near Marseille for a prosecutor-led investigation into an alleged flag offence, part of a wider European crackdown on shadow-fleet tankers.
France boards another Russian shadow fleet tanker off Sicily
France has intercepted the Russia-linked tanker Deliver off Sicily, stepping up Europe's campaign against the shadow fleet used to move sanctioned Russian oil.
CMA CGM linked to fresh boxship series at Hengli
CMA CGM is reported to have ordered eight 6,000 teu containerships at China's Hengli Heavy Industries, further extending the world's largest liner orderbook.
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