 French autonomous ports are allocated land they occupy, unlike the major seaports who now own (except for the natural area).In France, the autonomous port status was established by a 1920 law and was applied originally to a port in Bordeaux and a port in Le Havre.Following reforms in 1965, four other ports were created (Dunkerque, Rouen, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Marseille).the port in La Rochelle was created in 2006.