angalis mep 2009 - Le Cluster Maritime Français

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le cluster maritime français
contribution of the maritime
sector to the French economy
Sector of activity Directly Output “n a nutshell…”
supported jobs (billions of euros)
Merchant fleet 19,500 12 305 million tonnes of goods and 12 million
passengers carried per year.
Ports 40,000 4.5 41% of total external trade (by volume).
Shipbuilding and marine 40,000 5 Positioning on high value-added vessels
equipment suppliers (cruise ships, stealth vessels…).
Offshore service and supply 28,000 9.1 Oil and gas extraction in water up to
2,000m deep.
Yachting industry 45,000 5 9 million pleasure craft recorded in 2008.
Fishing and seafood products 59,180 7.6 7,631 boats (2,500 of which in the Overseas
Departments), 800,000 tonnes of products sold.
Government Action at Sea 56,000 6.3 From sea rescue to aircraft carriers.
Research Institutes 3,120 0.4 From clusters to deep-ocean.
Organisations and training 6,000 0.6 Training people…
Other activities** 10,500 2 Supporting other branches!
Maritime administrations 4,000 - The civil service working for the benefit of the
(Department of Maritime Affairs, …) sea and maritime industries.
Total 311,300 52.5*
*total including cross-sector purchases - **including figures not covered by full-time equivalent jobs and the value of production of emerging activities (RME, etc.)
Given the dispersion of the statistical data, these figures are estimates. However, this table is limited to jobs dependent
almost exclusively on the sea. Thus activities centred on coastal tourism, which alone contributed 21 billion euros and 240,000
jobs in 2007, have been excluded from the cluster! Likewise port activities do not take account of indirect jobs, such as
those in port industrial zones or those generated in shops and businesses, which alone account for 300,000 jobs.
The maritime industries cluster represents around 1.5% of the active population while output (excluding double
accounts, i.e net of internal trade between sectors in the cluster) contributes between 2 and 2.5% of GDP.
The maritime sector is as important if not more important than “traditional” French sectors:
In turnover, the French maritime sector is nearly 4 times greater than the building materials industry.
The maritime sector is twice the size of the French wine and spirits sector both in turnover and exports.
The maritime cluster employs more than the banking sector (200,000 direct jobs).
The maritime industry alone (excluding all services) is one and a half times bigger than the aeronautical industry (34 billion
euros) and the fashion industry (32 billion euros) in terms of turnover.
The maritime cluster employs as many people as the car industry (including parts suppliers).
fact
1,000 lorries per hour enter French territory just to pass through it…