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With 38 million tons (MT) of goods handled between January and June 2021, traffic at the Port of Marseille Fos increased by 13% compared with the first half of 2020. All types of goods traffic are increasing, particularly for containers (+2%), new vehicles (+18%), chemical bulk (+11%) and solid bulk (+11%). Only liquid bulk traffic is down compared with 2019 (-7%) despite an increase of +6% compared with 2020.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In total, more than 10 MT of general cargo was handled in the port of Marseille Fos in the first half of 2021, representing an increase of +19% compared with the same period in 2020. Container traffic is particularly vibrant with 755 k TEU handled, an increase of +21% compared to 2020 and +2% compared to 2019. \u00a0The trailer sector is also doing well with +31% compared with 2020 and +6% compared with 2019. The strongest growth can be seen in new vehicles traffic with an increase of +63% compared to 2020 and +18% compared to 2019. <\/p>\n With more than 6.3 MT handled in the first half of 2021, the sector exceeded its 2019 level by +4%. With the exception of cereals, all solid bulk traffic is increasing, and for some segments it is increasing spectacularly, in particular for the steel sector with an increase of +46% compared with 2020 and +7% compared with 2019. <\/p>\n At the end of June 2021, the port of Marseille Fos handled a total of 21.33 MT of liquid bulk, up from 2020 (+6%) and down from 2019 (-7%). This sector is weakened by the 9% drop in crude and refined oil traffic compared with 2019. The covid-19 pandemic continues to affect the consumption of oil products. LNG traffic continues to grow, +4% compared to 2020 and +6% compared to 2019. Chemical and food bulks are up by +21% compared with 2020 and +11% compared with 2019. maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With 38 million tons (MT) of goods handled between January and June 2021, traffic at the Port of Marseille Fos increased by 13% compared with the first half of 2020. All types of goods traffic are increasing, particularly for containers (+2%), new vehicles (+18%), chemical bulk (+11%) and solid bulk (+11%). Only liquid bulk traffic …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7971,1420,70,953,3489],"class_list":["post-27737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-fos","tag-jumps","tag-marseille","tag-port","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/27738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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On the downside, maritime passenger transport continues to be strongly affected by the health situation in the first half of 2021: -22% of passengers compared to 2020 and -81% compared to 2019.<\/p>\n