1. Economic importance of shipping

1.1 Weight of the maritime sector in the French economy

With 10.2 million square kilometers, France has the second largest maritime area in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Australia, Russia and the United Kingdom (figure 1 ). The control and surveillance of this maritime space, spread across all the world's oceans, represents an economic, strategic and ecological challenge for France.

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