Editing Bastia (section)

===Sea transport===
[[File:Portbia 01.jpeg|thumb|Port of Bastia]]
[[File:Casa BIA.jpg|thumb|Ferry MS ''[[MS Danielle Casanova|Danielle Casanova]]''.]]

Despite its small size the port of Bastia is the busiest French port on the Mediterranean Sea with 2,291,944 passengers in 2011.<ref name="portbastia">[http://www.bastia-hautecorse.cci.fr/PortBia/images/stats/annuel_2015_bastia_2014.pdf Port of Bastia Statistics 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208052856/http://www.bastia-hautecorse.cci.fr/PortBia/images/stats/annuel_2015_bastia_2014.pdf |date=8 December 2015 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

This makes it the second busiest French port behind [[Calais]] (about 15 million passengers).

Ports served from Bastia are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Port !! No. of Passengers in 2014!! %age
|-
| [[Toulon]] || align="right" | {{formatnum:548071}} || align="right" | 25.6%
|-
| [[Livorno]] ([[Italy]]) || align="right" | {{formatnum:529822}} || align="right" | 24.7%
|-
| [[Marseille]] || align="right" | {{formatnum:253899}} || align="right" | 11.9%
|-
| [[Nice]] || align="right" | {{formatnum:340007}} || align="right" | 15.9%
|-
| [[Savona]] (Italy)|| align="right" | {{formatnum:324512}} || align="right" | 15.2%
|-
| [[Genoa]] (Italy)|| align="right" | {{formatnum:110997}} || align="right" | 5.2%
|-
| Other routes || align="right" | {{formatnum:19790}} || align="right" | 0.9%
|-
| [[Portoferraio]] (Italy)|| align="right" | {{formatnum:14283}} || align="right" | 0.6%
|-
|Total || align="right" | {{formatnum:2141381}} || align="right" | 100%
|}
Source: CCI Haute Corse – Port Statistics 2014 (p.&nbsp;12)<ref name="portbastia"/>

Domestic traffic is 47.4% against 52.6% international traffic.<ref name="portbastia"/>

[[File:Nombre de passagers par mois transitant par le port de Bastia en 2011.png|thumb|No. of passengers per month transiting the port of Bastia in 2011<ref name="portbastia"/>]]

;Port Seasonality
As shown in the adjacent diagram, shipping and passenger traffic is characterized by a very marked seasonality. This is explained by the importance of summer tourism for the economy of Corsica. Thus the traffic is multiplied by eleven in the high season (July–August). This seasonality has a very strong impact on the city of Bastia, as on all Corsica. The city must be equipped with the necessary infrastructure to be able to accommodate such numbers of passengers even though it is for a short time each year.

;Port Passenger Market share

There is a clear dominance by [[Corsica Ferries]]:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Shipping Company !! No. of passengers transported in 2014<ref name="portbastia"/> !! Market share
|-
| [[Corsica Ferries]] || align="right" | {{formatnum:5611350}} || align="right" | 74.0%
|-
| [[SNCM]] || align="right" | {{formatnum:854204}} || align="right" | 11.3%
|-
| [[Moby Lines]] || align="right" | {{formatnum:840000}} || align="right" | 11.1%
|-
| La Méridionale || align="right" | {{formatnum:281700}} || align="right" | 3.7%
|-
|Total || align="right" | {{formatnum:7587254}} || align="right" | 100%
|}