Marseille Fos promotes eco port dues

The incentive will come into effect on July 1, 2017, and will apply to container ships and cruise vessels with a score equal to or less than 35 according to the WPCI Environmental Ship Index. Other sectors will be added in 2018.

In a further green initiative, Marseille Fos has launched a website link to reinforce its co-operation with AirPACA, the air quality monitoring association for the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region. The port joined in 2004, making it the longest-serving transport infrastructure member.

Since 2015, it has been supplying annual maritime traffic statistics to support air quality analysis, and help the association to produce a highly reliable real-time ‘pollution map’ which has previously been unpublished within the port domain but which will now be available at www.marseille-port.fr.