FOS

FOS
FOS abbr.
free on steamer.

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France
in full  Fos-sur-Mer,  

      port town, Bouches-du-Rhône département, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) région, southern France, on Golfe de Fos (an inlet of the Gulf of Lion), on the Mediterranean coast, just west of Marseille and north of Port-de-Bouc. Fos was originally a small village dependent on agriculture and fishing. However, in the 1960s its future was transformed by the decision to extend the port of Marseille and create a major industrial zone on adjacent land. The port at Fos opened in 1968 and has since become the centre of Marseille's dry and liquid bulk traffic and container shipments. Crude oil is the major import and serves refineries at Fos and around the Étang-de-Berre salt lagoon, as well as more distant sites in France, Germany, and Switzerland via the South European Pipeline. Liquefied natural gas, iron, and coking coal are other major imports. Fos's heavy industries include steelmaking and petrochemical manufacture. There is also a zone for lighter manufacturing and service industries, while the container quays are linked to a multimodal logistics centre. Development has been on a smaller scale than originally anticipated, but the complex has provided many employment opportunities for the town and the wider region. Fos itself has been altered radically, with a “new town” built to the north of the old village nucleus. Pop. (1999) 13,922; (2005 est.) 15,700.

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