Tag: France

French energy company Total and French shipping company CMA CGM have signed an agreement covering the supply of around 300,000 tons of LNG per year for 10 years starting from 2020, for CMA CGM's nine newbuild container ships, scheduled for delivery beginning 2020 onwards.

Rodolphe Saadé, General Director of the CMA CGM Group announced the company's decision to register four of its 20,000+ TEUs, under the French Flag. The company has declared its intention to equip the ships with engines using LNG in order to comply with new environmental rules.

France's Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, stated that France plans to adopt LNG as a fuel, altering regulation and fiscal rules on amortising investments, in order to facilitate refuelling to take place at ports.

29 people were injured and at least 20 cars were damaged, during a fire that broke out on the passenger ferry 'Tariq-Ibn-Ziyad', which had started its route from Marseille and was heading to Algeria.

ENGIE, a French electricity company, announced the renewal of the regasification and storage services contract with Chinese energy group CNOOC for the coming winter season. This will be provided by the FSRU GDF SUEZ Cape Ann in the port of Tianjin.

Ince&Co law firm informed that if a seafarer's private social security cover has the same branches as those defined in Article L-111-1 of the French Social Security law, these seafarers do not have to be affiliated to the ENIM and can maintain their private coverage.

A group of researchers announced that they have discovered a flaw in the way ocean's temperatures were measured up to this date. This discovery can raise some serious that concerns regarding the current levels of climate change.

Ending the recent diplomatic dispute, France and Italy have reached an agreement on Wednesday over STX France, giving control of the French shipyard to the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, under shared ownership and strict conditions.

Ecoslops, the first company the first company to develop technology to produce recycled marine fuels from marine oil residues, announced that it seeks permission from the French authorities to start operating an oil residue waste-processing unit at La Mède, near Marseilles in partnership with Total group.

Italian Fincantieri’s plan to acquire a majority stake in STX France was thwarted, after the country's new government decided to temporarily nationalise the shipyard. The goal of this decision is to defend France's strategic interests in shipbuilding, as Saint-Nazaire shipyards are "a unique industrial tool in France."