the port of the Havre launches a quinquennial development plan of the value of 385 million euros



Friday the surveillance council of the Harbour Authority of the Havre has adopted strategic plan 2014-2019 that it delineates the program of development of the French port in the light of a market in continuous evolution. In particular, the plan takes note of the restructure in existence world-wise of the activities of oil refining with a consequent structural and long-lasting decrease of the oil traffic crude oil, of the evolution of the marine transport in highly competitive markets, above all in the fields of the traffic of the container, the rotabili and the refined oil produced ones, of the decrease of the ability to financing of the harbour agency of the Havre and the necessity to face thematic the environmental ones.

On the base of such premises the fixed quinquennial strategic plan some priorities. The first is primariamente to orient the action in the field of the container, that it is a section in a position to generating consisting levels of occupation and added value and that anticipates highest potential than development. The plan esteem that the quota traffic of the container regarding the volume total of traffic enlivened from the port of the Havre would have to increase of the +35-50% in order to reach in a 2020 annual traffic pairs to 3,5-4,5 million teu.

Moreover the five-year plan previews to consolidate and to develop the activities in the other fields in order to support and to strengthen the complex harbour-manufacturer of the Havre, to offer favorable conditions for the takeover in the territory of logistic and industrial activities of, privileging the reconversion of the areas. The Harbour Authority has specified that in the quinquennium the offer of areas could be of beyond 500 hectares, of which almost 200 hectares through the conversion of areas.

Strategic plan 2014-2019 proposes also the ambitious objective of an increase of 10 points percentages of the quota goods transported for fluvial and railway way, in order to elevate it to about 25%, and moreover previews to pursue a process of continuous improvement of the harbour activities, to assure the sustainability of the patrimony from the Harbour Authority on the base of a found again ability to self-financing and to meanwhile pursue an ulterior development of the port contributing to the quality of the environmental functions of the matting of Senna.

The total volume of the investments in period 2014-2019 is previewed pairs to 385 million euros, of which beyond 200 million euros for new participations (87 million for the harbour terminals, in particular in the segments of the container, 40 million for the creation of logistic parks, 13 million for the connections and the railway lines of the container terminal, 2 million for studies on the fluvial access to the area harbour Port 2000, 6 million for the cargo handling activities, 57 million euros for the traffic of the equipments of the wind systems offshore and 27 million euros for the modernization of the locks). The Harbour Authority has remembered that this investment program has the support of the State and the Alta Normandia Region in the picture of Contracts of regional and interregional Plan and is object of deep demand for access to the Europeans.