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1.2. Dense infrastructures |
Largest port in France and the Mediterranean
| 220 regular shipping lines link Marseille-Fos up to over 400 ports and serve 140 countries: the US, South East Asia, the Far East, the Maghreb region, the Middle East, Western Africa, etc.
In 2003, the port of Marseille saw its best results for the last 15 years, with traffic up 36% to 956 million tons. The activity is balancing out again at the expense of hydrocarbons and in favour of various goods, with a spectacular increase in container traffic.
1.7 million passengers
Spectacular development in the cruise activity :
- 44 stopovers in 1995,
- 300 in 2003 with 340,000 passengers | 
Port of Marseille
Photo by Pascal Delcey
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Marseille airport/port of Marseille Provence
Ranking: 3 rd provincial airport for passenger traffic and 2 nd for freight Specific feature: 1 st world network for North Africa and Corsica after Paris
Choice: 2 nd provincial airport for the number of airlines (25 from 19 countries)
Quality: ISO 9001 DNV certified |
International destinations from Marseille airport / Marseille port : |
Agadez Alger Annaba Atar Amsterdam Antalya Athens Bâle Barcelona Batna Béjaïa Brussels Casablanca Constantine Damas Djerba Frankfurt Gao Geneva Cairo Libreville Lisbon London Madrid Milan Munich Monastir Naples Oran Oudia Palermo Porto Saint Denis Tel Aviv Tlemcen Tozeur Tunis Venice. |
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Leading telecommunications centre, first southern European hub : | 35 international operators have invested 686 million euros in high-speed networks, ranking Marseille 2 nd in France and 1 st for Mediterranean cities for this sector.
Marseille is able to converse digitally with the entire world and is developing e-commerce and customer care centres.
More than 80 call centres have been set up, creating 4,000 jobs. |
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