Last Thursday, the Authority's supervisory board Port of Marseille-Fos has adopted the strategic plan "Marseille Fos 25-29" which provides for investments of between one billion and €1.3 billion over five years compared to €340 million provided for by the previous strategic plan of the institution.

The first objective of the new plan is to increase the freight and passenger traffic by strengthening the role of the French airport as a gateway and exit to Europe southern. Enhancement that will be carried out mainly with the implementation of the Fos 3XL project which plans to expand the current container terminals of the port area of Fos on the of Darsena 2 by creating an additional 450 linear meters of quay and 21 hectares of new areas with an expected investment of €220 million, which is estimated to bring additional capacity of traffic equal to 200 thousand TEUs per year. According to the draft, the new landing could be operational by 2031.

The execution of the project is also based on agreement signed last Monday by Hervé Martel, president of the Marseille-Fos Port Authority, and David Elbez, Director of the of investments for the group's terminals in France and Africa MSC/TiL which provides for the expansion to the north of the Fos 2XL terminal operated by the French Seayard under an agreement with the Mediterranean Shipping Company shipping group. The agreement provides for the construction of an additional 120 linear meters of quay and 3.3 linear meters hectares of areas, an expansion that will fall within the scope of the most extensive Fos 3XL project.

In addition, the strategic plan includes a programme of Reindustrialization focused on projects for the transition also to compensate for the expected drop in revenues deriving from the trafficking of hydrocarbons through new models economic and financial engineering strategies.

Among other interventions, the strategic plan also provides for the Construction of the planned small terminal for cruise ships on quays 93 and 94, a project that - downsized - will be carried out by the Port Authority after the withdrawal of the consortium formed by Royal Caribbean Cruises, Compagnie du Ponant, Viking Cruises.