France to privatise ports

Seven of Frances nine public ports – Bordeaux, Dunkirk, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and Rouen – are to be privatised, with investment made available by the state to boost throughput from 3.6m teu/year to 10m teu/year by 2015.

Seven of Frances nine public ports - Bordeaux, Dunkirk, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and Rouen - are to be privatised, with investment made available by the state to boost throughput from 3.6m teu/year to 10m teu/year by 2015.