🎉 UMF warmly thanks all the participants of the “Grand Maritime Gala” which took place on Thursday May 23th 2024 at Fort Ganteaume in Marseille.
✨ In the presence of 300 people, our federation was delighted to celebrate its 120th anniversary, and more generally the vitality of our professional associations and our port area gathered on this occasion.

🤝 UMF would like to thank all the local and national personalities who gave us the honor and the pleasure of being present among us: the regional prefect Christophe Mirmand, the deputy Jean-Marc Zulesi, the president of the Region Sud Renaud Muselier, regional councilors Isabelle Campagnola Savon and Laurent Benvenuti, deputy mayor Laurent Lhardit representing the mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, the mayor of Cassis and vice-president of Department 13 and the AMP Metropolis Danielle Milon, the mayor of Fos-sur-Mer René Raimondi, the mayor of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Martial Alvarez, the president of the GPMM Executive Board Hervé Martel, the president of the CCIAMP Jean-Luc Chauvin, the president of UPE 13 Philippe Korcia, the president of the French Maritime Cluster Nathalie Mercier-Perrin, the president of TLF Overseas Joël Glusman, the general delegate of TLF Overseas François Daniel, the president of the UMPF Jean-Claude Sarremejeanne, the vice-president of the maritime commission of the AUTF Valérie Clément Launoy, the president of MedLink Ports Thomas San Marco, and the general delegate of the MeRS axis Romain Maillot.
The ports of our region were represented at the highest level, with Christine Rosso, president of the ports of Toulon, and Alain Mistre, president of the port of Nice.

👉 In particular, we sincerely thank all of our speakers: Hervé Berville, Secretary of State for the Sea and Biodiversity, who was unable to go to Marseille but who was kind enough to speak on video, François Lambert and Caroline Pons from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime (ENSM), Christine Cabau-Woehrel vice-president of the CMA CGM group, and Christophe Castaner president of the GPMM Supervisory Board.

🙌 Finally, we extend our sincere thanks to our service providers, to our animator Nathalie Simon, to our sponsors, and to the companies who offered prizes for our raffle.