List of port cities in France
The port in Marseille in 1575
This list contains port cities with commercial ports in France in the sequence of the coastline from north to west and south, or in the Mediterranean and overseas (excluding inland ports ). So this can include ports for fishing, cargo handling, ferry terminals, passenger and cruise ports.
List of port cities
- Dunkerque
- Calais
- Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Le Tréport
- Dieppe
- Fécamp
- Le Havre
- Rouen
- Honfleur
- Caen - Ouistreham
- Cherbourg
- Granville
- Saint Malo
- Le Légué (Saint-Brieuc)
- Lézardrieux
- Pontrieux
- Tréguier
- Morlaix
- Roscoff -Bloscon
- Brest (French Navy)
- Landerneau
- Douarnenez
- Guilvinec
- Quimper - Corniguel
- Concarneau
- Lorient
- Vannes
- Redon
- Nantes
- Saint-Nazaire
- Port-Joinville (Île d'Yeu)
- Les Sables-d'Olonne
- La Rochelle
- Rochefort
- Tonnay-Charente
- Royan - Royan upstream stands in the middle of the Gironde estuary, the Cordouan lighthouse (French: Phare de Cordouan). It has been in operation since 1611, making it the longest-serving lighthouse in France .
- Bordeaux , southern beginning of the Gironde
- Bayonne
- Port-Vendres
- Port-la-Nouvelle (Aude)
- Sète
- Marseille
- Toulon
- Cannes
- Nice
- Villefranche-sur-Mer (The 6th US fleet was anchored in this bay until 1962 after the Second World War. Villefranche is now the largest cruise port in Fr.)
- Corsica
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
Ports on Reunion- Fort-de-France
- Larivot à Matoury
- French Guiana,
- Reunion
- Mayotte (Strait of Mozambique)
- Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (near Newfoundland)
- French Polynesia
- Nouméa (New Caledonia)
Others
A French year-round coastal station, Dumont-d'Urville (built in 1956 ), has long existed as an Antarctic research station and base for further stations in the Antarctic (Adelieland ).
See also
- European Maritime Safety Agency
- List of European lighthouses (including a selection of French lighthouses)
- List of cities, ports and beacons on the English Channel
- List of marinas in France
- SeaFrance , the largest French shipping company , including for the Calais-Dover ferry connection, a 100% subsidiary of the French railway company SNCF
- Ministry of Transport (France at WP: fr; "Ministère de l'Écologie, de l'Énergie, du Développement durable et de la Mer")
- Voies navigables de France (VNF), the state waterway administration
Movies
- Xavier Lefebvre: The most beautiful coasts of France. Documentation, France (arte), 2009, 43 min. Each (Part 1: From Dunkirk to the Seine estuary. Part 2: From Honfleur to Mont-Saint-Michel. 3. From Cancale to Ile d'Ouessant. (Brest) Part 4. From Douarnenez to Saint-Nazaire part 5. From Ile de Noirmoutier to Talmont-sur-Gironde. Filmed in 3D from a helicopter)
- Charles-Antoine de Rouvre (director), Jérôme Scemla: “France's most beautiful coasts.” Documentary, Fri., 2011, 90 min (in 3D technology. Summaries of the aforementioned films)
literature
- Les petits ports de pêche. Editions Gilletta (The small fishing ports - French)
- Catherine Lalanne: Ports de France. Editions Flammarion, 2007, 192 pages. ISBN 9782080116635 (Ports in France - French)
Individual references, footnotes
- ↑ Sender information on the 10 episodes (photographs) ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Présentation des Ports français (French, at port.fr; statistical information)
- Annotated port list of France (also sport + leisure ports )
- Information / links to ports of France (at europa-auf-einen-blick.de)
- Trafic de passagers en France (métropole; passenger volume) (French)
- Trafic de marchandises en France (métropole; trade flows in F.) (French)
- Trafic des ports français des départements d'outre mer (French trade in overseas ports) (French)