Emmanuel Macron promotes a “Grand Port of Marseille in Lyon”
In an interview with La Provence, Emmanuel Macron assured to promote a “Grand Port of Marseille in Lyon” in order to allow the simplified transport of goods and energy from the Marseille port to the Rhone valley.
After the “Marseille en grand” plan, Emmanuel Macron is aiming higher with a “Grand Port that goes from Marseille to Lyon”. In any case, this is the objective stated by the President of the Republic in an interview granted to the daily La Provence, this Saturday, December 10. Alongside the Spanish and Portuguese leaders, the French president also officially launched this Friday in Alicante, in the south-east of Spain, the ambitious hydrogen pipeline between Barcelona and Marseille, which should be completed by to 2030.
Marseille, an opening to the world
“With this project, Marseille will become one of the major hydrogen centers in Europe,” said the Head of State. “This is one of the concrete implementations of the speech I gave a little over a year ago at the Pharo on ecological planning and on the Marseilles big,” he adds. This “Grand Port” should go up to the south of Lyon in order to transport energy and goods to an area very concentrated on the chemical industry, which will thus make it possible to connect with Germany, a major partner of France. .
Let’s make Marseille one of the main gateways to green hydrogen in Europe!
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 9, 2022
“We have to do in Marseille-Lyon what we did in Le Havre-Paris with Haropa. The idea is to integrate the transport of goods and energy, tourism and industrial development”, specifies the president, whose former Minister of the Interior Christopher Castaner has just been elected chairman of the supervisory board of the port of Marseille-Fos.
The port of the Phocaean city, which is one of the largest in France, welcomes nearly 10,000 ships and handles around 80 million tonnes of goods