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| Port of Le Havre moves 13% more cargo in August |
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 09/10/2007
The port of Le Havre reported a 13% increase in the volume of cargo handled in the month of August, compared with the same month last year. A total of 52.8 million tons were loaded or discharged in the port during the first eight months of 2007, a rise of +8.6% compared with the first eight months of 2006.
Container throughput contributed to this positive development, with 2.3 million tons handled (+29.7%), or a total of more than 1.7 million TEU’s (+25.4%) for the first eight months of this year.
Dry bulks also recorded high increases (+ 27.8% to 3 million tons), especially coal trade (+42.3% to 1.6 million tons) handled in the ore and multibulk centres.
Photo : Port of Le Havre Authority
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| Customer Relations Day - 2007 |
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 09/06/2007
The Customer Relations Day will take place at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Le Havre on September 26, 2007. The objective of this day is to make it possible to discover the various businesses in a rapidly-growing sector in the Le Havre region.
The fruit of a national initiative backed by the AFRC (French Association for Customer Relations), management of the 2007 event has been taken over in Upper-Normandy by the “Cité des Métiers” (Careers Resource Center). Organized in Le Havre by the ANPE (French National Agency for Employment), the Le Havre Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the CODAH (Le Havre Conurbation Community), the City of Le Havre, the “Maison de l’Emploi” (Employment Center) and Le Havre Développement, in partnership with local professional actors of the sector, this day is particularly aimed at students and people looking for work.
Through mini-conferences, visits of call centers and meetings with professionals, participants will be offered a comprehensive round-up of the sector and the proposed employment prospects (account executives, telesales operatives, supervisors, etc.).
Customer Relations Day
Wednesday September 26, 2007, from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 2 to 6 p.m.
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Le Havre (Esplanade de l’Europe, near the Vauban dock)
Limited number of places – Registrations compulsory
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| A symposium on Biofuel in Fécamp |
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 09/06/2007
The Fécamp and Bolbec-Lillebonne Chambers and Commerce and Industry together with the ATEE (Technical Association for the Environment and Energy) are organizing, on October 18, 2007, a symposium on the following topic: “Biofuel: environmental and technological prospects. What are the economic challenges for the transport, agriculture and fishing sectors?”.
From 3 to 6.45 p.m., a comprehensive program of presentations and round table discussions will make it possible to tackle the environmental issue, the position of biofuel within French energy policy and the challenges for the agricultural sector.
Biofuel Symposium
Lycées Descartes and Guy de Maupassant
1575, Bd Nelson Mandela – 76400 Fécamp - France
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Contact: Mr. Jean-Marc Patry – CCI Fécamp / Bolbec Lillebonne - Service développement économique (ec jmpatry@fecamp.cci.fr |
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| “The world in 2020”, a forum by Alexandre Adler |
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 09/03/2007
On the occasion of a forum, Alexandre Adler, an expert in questions of contemporary international geopolitics, a daily contributor to “France culture” and a member of the editorial board of the conservative French daily “Le Figaro”, will come to present his latest book “Le rapport CIA – Comment sera le monde en 2020” (CIA report: what will the world be like in 2020), published in September 2005 by Robert Laffont.
For the first time, the public has access to research and analysis carried out by top geo-politicians of the CIA. What will the world map be like in ten years time? What will Europe be in 2020? Will the apparently irreversible process of globalization impose the Western model worldwide?
Alexandre Adler will present an analysis of this document, co-written by twenty-five academics and other international experts, to propose the North American leaders of the next fifteen years suggestions for both reflection and action. Between alarmism and hope, the authors of this report – historians, military personnel, diplomats – propose the most accurate, clear-minded and plausible reading of the world of tomorrow.
The forum will be followed by a cocktail party.
“The world in 2020” forum
September 25 at 6.30 p.m. at the Le Havre Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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| “Laguna III”: production in progress at the Renault plant of Le Havre-Sandouville! |
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 08/28/2007
While the market launch of the third-generation Renault Laguna will take place on October 12, the Renault Le Havre-Sandouville production site and part of its 4,600 employees are already working to ensure daily assembly of some 400 models of the new sedan manufactured by the well-known French car maker, in order to be able to deliver the models to car dealerships. Dealers will register the first orders from September, 12.
With daily production soon to reach 600, rising later to 900 models per day, the Sandouville plant confirms its positioning for production of the make’s top and medium ranges. To meet the needs of this production, the site has benefited from investments of more than € 200 million to develop a new specialized production line, alongside the one which assembles, among others, the Espace model. The total investment to design and produce this new generation of sedan amounts to almost € 1.52 billion for the French car maker.
Originally codenamed X91, this new Laguna was developed over a period of almost 3 years by the engineers of the Renault Technocenter. It has the advantage of high-tech standards of quality combined with improved environmentally-friendly design. In fact, with CO2 emissions of just 130g/km, the dCi 110hp version has a record-breaking low level of emissions for a sedan of this size and category. Note that a convertible-coupe model will also be available from 2008.
Picture: Renault
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| Very good biannual results for port traffic |
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 07/13/2007
Le Havre port traffic confirms the positive trend observed since the beginning of 2007 with a total traffic of 39.1 million tons (including refueling), an increase of 6.9% compared to the first semester of 2006. The excellent results are due to increases in dry bulk cargo and miscellaneous goods, up by 26.1% and 23.1% respectively.
For the miscellaneous goods, container activity is continuing to rise with a total of 1,264,000 TEUs handled during the first six months, which corresponds to an increase of 26.3% in number (or 25.8% in tonnage at 12.6 Mt handled). It registered its 6th consecutive monthly record high with 225,000 TEUs handled in June. The 200,000 TEUs threshold was crossed for the first time in January 2007 and has been increasing steadily ever since.
The first semester of 2007 was also positive for solid bulk cargo whose tonnage increased by 26.1% to 2.3 Mt, with increases in all traffic of this nature. Especially notable were the very good results of coal (up by 32.5% at 1.3 Mt) and cement (up by 24.3% at 0.2 Mt).
Liquid bulk activity, the Port of le Havre’s leading activity in terms of tonnage with 23.1 Mt handled at the end of June 2007, decreased by 0.5 Mt (or 2.1%) in comparison to the first semester of 2006. Even if crude oil traffic remains relatively stable with a decrease of only 0.5% at 16.7 Mt, the refined products traffic decreased by 8.4% at 5.4 Mt at the end of the first semester. Nevertheless, we underscore the sharp increase in other liquid bulks by 23.4% (at 0.8 Mt) compared to the same period in 2006
Cross-Channel activity is also an excellent reason for satisfaction with an increase in the number of passengers of 32.2% (from 110,411 in 2006 to 146,000). We recall that since the end of April, LD Lines offers a new daily round trip service between Le Havre and Newhaven, England.
Picture: Port of Le Havre Authority
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| UbiFrance organizes a China Forum in Beijing from November 19 to 20, 2007 |
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 07/12/2007
After the success of its Forums in India, Morocco, China and Mexico, UbiFrance (the French Agency for International Business Development) and the Economic departments of French embassies abroad are organizing two additional events in 2007, including a new China Forum which will take place in Beijing from November 19 to 20, 2007 and will bring together 200 French companies and several hundred Chinese companies.
The 2-day business convention participants will be able to take advantage of 12 individual meetings with targeted local companies from their sector of activity, sharing of business experiences between French and foreign companies and specific information regarding the business environment thanks to a "village of experts" set up on site at the Forum. The participants will also be able to take part in field visits to local companies and industries.
The aim of the event, which mobilizes all the expertise of the UbiFrance network, is to make exploring business opportunities in China easier for companies and to help them save time and money.
Note that, depending on participants’ availability, UbiFrance is organizing extensions to the Forum on November 22 and 23 in Beijing (host city for the 2008 Olympic Games), Shanghai, Canton-Shenzhen, Chengdu and Hong-Kong.
Picture: UbiFrance
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| Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Fécamp and Bolbec-Lillebonne: National Open House Days |
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 07/12/2007
From October 15 to 22, 2007, the Bolbec-Lillebonne and Fécamp Chambers of Commerce and Industry are offering the opportunity for industrial companies to take part in the National Industry Open House Days.
The idea is to give the general public the possibility to visit industrial premises at a time and under conditions to be defined in agreement with the host company. Efforts must help increase the attractiveness of industrial careers, particularly among young people.
The project is a logical continuation of a recent study, carried out by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bolbec-Lillebonne, which highlights the recruitment difficulties of industrial sector companies. The National Industry Open House Days, introduced in 2003 by the Assembly of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry, was a huge success during its fourth edition in 2006.
It brought together 70 regions, 3,000 companies and the 250,000 visitors registered are evidence of the real and ever-growing interest of the general public to discover business.
For more information, advisors are at your disposal:
Bolbec-Lillebonne Chamber of Commerce and Industry
William BELLON
Phone: (33)2 32 84 47 47
wbellon@bolbec.cci.fr
Fécamp Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jean-Marc PATRY
Phone: (33)2 35 10 38 35
jmpatry@fecamp.cci.fr
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| Logistics: the question of transport and storage |
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 07/11/2007
A detailed examination of storage and transport of cargo lots within the Le Havre port area shows that although the current attitude is optimistic, there is still room for progress. Particularly via a shared logistics platform.
What capacity of logistics storage does Le Havre port area offer and how to optimize the best way distribution of cargo lots (pallets) to the hinterland (France, Europe)?
Two studies entrusted by Le Havre Développement and the “Club logistique & gestion” to three GOLP (Gestion des Opérations Logistiques et Portuaire, management of port and logistics operations) degree students from the Le Havre University Institute of Technology (IUT) provide some answers.
The first study was directed at 56 warehouse keepers (30 of whom replied) specializing in transport, port cartage, customs clearance and transit. This study identified 1 million m2 of space dedicated to storage, 2,500 jobs within companies and 100,000 days of work carried out by temporary employees per year. 60% of the companies questioned state that they have not yet experienced the positive impact of the implementation of Port 2000 but declare they are optimistic: 65% plan to expand within the coming five years.
The second study deals with "the performance of the Le Havre port area concerning the distribution of cargo lots to or from different European destinations". The students summarize the challenges for the region: "To massify the cargo lots and reduce costs, to improve the delivery times, to design and organize a system and an innovative organization dedicated to the distribution of cargo lots, to contribute to the increase in competitiveness of companies in this field all over the world, to reinforce the competitive positioning of Le Havre and finally, to improve the attractiveness of the Le Havre region". About ten companies were identified, within a perimeter of 40 km around Le Havre, as specializing in the transport of cargo lots (comprising units ranging from parcels delivered by courier to full truckloads - palletized cargo lots).
Almost all of these companies work exclusively in France, in the Paris (45%) and Le Havre (35%) areas. The students note "the demand for transport greater than the supply, the high cost of port cartage and a system of distribution not fully optimized because of a limited collaborative approach between the service providers. The quality of some services could be improved while respecting the transportation times of goods to warehouses".
Let us mention the example of the Astre transport operator group: 180 Small or Medium Enterprises, with a total of. 8,500 employees, mutually offered their services via a common platform and a pallet management European network. The next step, according to Pierre Godfroid (LHD) is to take advantage of the skill of the CRITT (Centre Régional pour l’Innovation et le Transfert de Technologie, regional center for innovation and technology transfer) to create data transmission tools and to launch a pilot experience of a shared logistics platform. A project which should come within the "Logistique Seine Normandie" competitiveness cluster.
Picture: Port of Le Havre Authority
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| Epaville Business Park: a new business park online at www.lhd-za.com |
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 07/11/2007
The directory of business parks in the Le Havre area, put online by LHD at the end of 2006 and now listing 38 sites, is getting bigger with the arrival of a newcomer, the Epaville Business Park. The 22-hectare park, located in the Montivilliers municipality, is designed to accommodate the craft, light and service industries, commercial activities, transport and logistics on twenty available sites. Sales price on a per square meter basis: from 31 to 35 € / m² not including tax.
Picture: City of Montivilliers
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| Official inauguration of the new veterinary and phytosanitary control facilities in Le Havre |
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