On Friday 5 July 2013, in the presence of many public figures, Michel Delebarre, Former Minister of State, Senator and Mayor of Dunkirk and a member of the Board of Trustees of Dunkerque-Port, conferred the Knighthood of the French Order of the Légion d'Honneur on Christine Cabau Woehrel, Chair of the Port's Executive Committee
The photo exhibition «Arrêt sur Images», which was shown extensively in the Nord-Pas de Calais region and Belgium in 2012, is going to China. 30 photos from this highly successful itinerant exhibition will be displayed on 9 July 2013 during Dunkerque-Port’s 4th Symposium in Shanghai, the world’s largest port where Dunkirk has an agency.
The port of Dunkirk wants to provide logistics and industrial businesses with a new area for their operations in the Western Port area: DLI Sud (Dunkerque Logistique International Sud).
The famous shortsea maritime operator MacAndrews, a subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group, has chosen Dunkirk for a new service to and from Portugal, calling twice weekly as of Saturday 27 April 2013.
Signed in February 2005 and renewed in 2009, the Progress Contract between Dunkerque-Port, the Maritime and Commercial Union and French Waterways reports signifi cant results, in line with its goal of promoting the development of waterway transport to and from the port of Dunkirk.