Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)
In Marseille, the port is a city within a city.
It's difficult to escape, when arriving in the Phocaean city via the coastal highway, the striking spectacle of cargo ships moored on the quays and XXL liners which discharge several million passengers each year.
These cruise ships as large as buildings have gradually taken over from the container ships coming to unload their “TEU” (twenty-foot equivalent units).
The famous multicolored metal boxes filled with products of all kinds from Asia or America.
From now on, it is in the western basin, in Fos, that these containers are deposited.
It is precisely on these commercial vessels that the attention of the authorities is focused in the fight against drug trafficking.
The figures are explicit: 75% of cocaine coming from Latin America arrives in France by sea routes.
Due to its geographical position, Le Havre constitutes the main port of rebound…
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