On Monday, 20 October, French president Emmanuel Macron, alongside Slovenian prime minister Robert Golob and Rodolphe Saade, President of French CMA-CGM shipping line visited the Slovenia’s port of Koper on the Adriatic. The visit has been heralded as part of a broader effort to reinforce the Franco-Slovenian strategic partnership and to advance the development of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC).
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CMA-CGM is already forming a joint venture with the port to take on 27,000sqm of land to develop an automotive logistics site. The shipping line has been operating two direct weekly maritime services: the Phoenician Express connecting Asia to the Mediterranean, and the Bora Med service within the Mediterranean basin, for more than 20 years.
In recent years, the port of Koper has considerably grown their annual cargo throughput, positioning itself as a gateway into Central Europe with Tailwind, the liner operated by German supermarket chain Lidl, using the port as one its key hubs.