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Maritime transport: Opening up French ports to foreign transport

France, known for its maritime vocation due to its coastlines facing the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Mediterranean, is now reforming its ports to improve its economic attractiveness and competitiveness.

According to Philippe Favre, CEO of Invest in France Agency: “The government wants to reinforce the competitiveness and productivity of French ports. This means active significant investments (€445 million budgeted up to 2013) and private operators to increase average annual traffic from 3.5 to 10 million containers by 2015.”

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• Maritime transport: Opening up French ports to foreign transport [pdf - 37 Ko]

France-Japan Investment Awards Ceremony 2008

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  • CP cérémonie Awards 2008 [pdf - 205 Ko]
  • 2008年日仏投資賞授賞式　プレスリリース [pdf - 218 Ko]

Rail freight transport in France: when rail overtakes road

Given the chronic congestion of the road and motorway networks and the rising cost of fuel, the transport of goods by rail is a competitive alternative to road transport and should become the preferred means of transport in the future.

Legislation proposed as a result of the Grenelle Environment Forum held November 2007, which aims to increase the percentage of freight that is not transported by road to 25% by 2012 (it is currently 14%) and reduce carbon emissions by 20% by 2020, is a step in this direction.

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• Rail freight transport in France: when rail overtakes road [pdf - 34 Ko]

Logistics in France

The logistics sector has become a full-blown economic sector in its own right, and one that shows consistent positive market growth.

The logistics sector represents over one million companies that employ approximately 5 million people in Europe (1,516,000 jobs in the logistics sector in France), and allows an economy to function on a continental scale that is open to the entire world. (...)

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• Logistics in France [pdf - 56 Ko]
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  • Logística en Francia: une revolución económica ligada al desarrollo europeo e internacional [PDF - 73 Ko]
  • Logistics in France [pdf - 131 Ko]

Invest in France Agency sets up its commercial strategy for the next 3 years

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  • L’AFII fixe sa stratégie commerciale pour les trois prochaines années [pdf - 79 Ko]
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  • Contrat d'objectifs et de moyens AFII 2009/2011 [pdf - 2 Mo]