{"title":"Ships and boats market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/345-ships-and-boats","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"345","label":"Ships and boats"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 45 supply contracts for ships and boats through award notices on TED; the 17 of them that state a value (37.8%) add up to €59.9 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €3.47 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to ships and boats in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8901, 8903, 8905, 8904 and 8902; all buyers, not only public ones), up 54.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 73 companies have won 102 public supply contracts for ships and boats in France, in 65 award notices from 49 public buyers.","95.1% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Switzerland.","The five companies that win most often hold 18.6% of all awards.","31.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":102,"awardNotices":65,"winningCompanies":73,"publicBuyers":49,"awardsWithValue":60,"awardedValueEur":124400638,"localAwards":97,"foreignAwards":5,"top5Share":0.18627450980392157,"singleBidAwards":30,"awardsWithKnownBids":94,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":17,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":10338904},{"year":2025,"awards":45,"awardNotices":21,"awardsWithValue":17,"awardedValueEur":59869036},{"year":2026,"awards":40,"awardNotices":29,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":54192698}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8901","label":"Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods"},{"hs4":"8903","label":"Yachts and other vessels for pleasure or sports"},{"hs4":"8905","label":"Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function"},{"hs4":"8904","label":"Tugs and pusher craft"},{"hs4":"8902","label":"Fishing vessels"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2246064960},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2512985820},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3471477556}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in France — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €486 billion in 2025, 16.2% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":485827000000,"percentOfGdp":16.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Ships and boats market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/345-ships-and-boats, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}