After being damaged in World War II, the port, construction of which was first begun in 1666, was rebuilt to receive large fuel and wine tankers.
For those who still think wine boxes naff, the report sees most wine being shipped round the world in "wine tankers' before being put in plastic or reinforced cardboard containers.
Gillette said ISC has had "an extremely unfortunate history of failures" since the post-World War II days when Louis Petri, a grape grower, built Italian Swiss Colony into a national brand, shipping wine by tanker from California to New York, where it was bottled and sold.
Rumours still persist of wine-laden tankers heading north to unload their illicit cargo.
A group of masked, militant French winemakers has attacked foreign tankers of wine, bricked up a public building and caused small explosions at supermarkets.Now France's balaclava-clad winemakers have a new horror to see off: transgenic wine.
"Our tankers are full and we have millions of litres of wine remaining in our basement," he added.
Add many bottles of red wine, a couple of vodka-sodas and then enough Guinness to float an oil tanker.
A leading think-tanker is widely quoted saying that Spain is good for flamenco, red wine and nothing else.
Much of the wine Franzia bottles there is "free-way aged" — it comes up from the Central Valley in tankers and is packaged for quick sale.
Up until the mid-1970s, according to wine authority Robert Parker, the grandees of the Côte d'Or continued the venerable practice of "ameliorating" the local juice with tanker-loads of Grenache from the Rhône.
