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| Total Fluides: investments worth € 15 million on the Port Industrial Zone |
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 05/04/2009
The Total Fluides production unit of the Port of Le Havre Industrial Zone is currently completing a € 15 million investment programme intended to modernize its manufacturing processes. Objective: to improve the performances of the productive facilities while adapting them to environmental safety standards. One notable project will be the replacement of a fractionating tower.
This unit, which employs 70 people, specializes in hydrocarbon fluids (400,000 tons/year) used in the printing, plant protection products, sealants and paint products.
The production lines will be suspended for 5 weeks for the work to be performed. This work will be carried out by companies from the Le Havre region. 400 external employees will be on the Total Fluides site on this occasion.
Picture: Total Fluides
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| The port of Le Havre at the Intermodal South America exhibition |
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 04/29/2009
As every year, the port of Le Havre was present at the "Intermodal South America" exhibition. This exhibition, the largest in South America, is a reference for specialists in transport and logistics from all over the world.
Between April 14 and 16, 2009, a great number of exhibitors came from Sao Paolo: almost 400 of them in the sea, air, rail and road transport, forwarding and logistics sector.
For the third consecutive time, Dunkirk, Le Havre, Rouen and Nantes joined together in a common “French ports” pavilion in order to put the accent on the strength and extent of the French port industry. There was something very special in this participation as 2009 is the year of France in Brazil and numerous events are organized within this framework, on the economic level as well as on the cultural one.
This pavilion, with eleven other French firms grouped together in the “Espace France” organized by Ubifrance, constituted a center for French logistics know-how.
For the port of Le Havre, it provided the occasion to fully reinforce its position with the South American stakeholders trading with Europe, and to present its development and the future achievements to come, particularly in Port 2000. The extended possibilities of services of the French and European markets through reinforced modes of transport were most particularly brought to the forefront.
The French port stand was visited by Pedro Brito, Minister of Brazilian Ports, who was able to observe the complementary nature of the French ports represented, and to discuss the importance of relationships between Le Havre and the Brazilian ports. Remember that in October 2007, a delegation of Brazilian ports and entrepreneurs, directed by Pedro Brito, was welcomed in the port of Le Havre.
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| China Europa: Launching of a Web TV dealing with Sustainable Urban Development in Europe and China |
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 04/17/2009
The “China Europa” event, an exhibition and business convention between Europe and China which started a Sustainable Urban Development cycle this year, now has its Web TV!
The first interactive and participative Web TV in French, Chinese and English dealing with sustainable urban projects, China Europa TV notably offers an editorial content created in Europe and China in the form of videos and news articles presented in a blog.
Designed as a web 2.0 video platform allowing net surfers to submit their own videos, to post comments and thus to create a think-in community around future sustainable cities, China Europa TV aims to be a unique information platform dealing with technologies and actors involved in future sustainable cities.
Among video reports already on line, let us mention the management of environment and economic development within the city of Panjin; Hammarby Sjöstad, the eco-friendly district in Stockholm; treatment of wastes in Shanghai; and the project of Signal Tower in the business area of La Défense (Paris).
By the end of April, this Web TV will be enhanced by newscasts on Sustainable Urban Development and by new reports currently being filmed, notably about eco-tourism in the province of Sichuan and management of transport in Beijing following the organization of the Olympic Games.
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| Welcome Club: welcome evening for newcomers on Thursday April 9 |
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 04/08/2009
The first “new-style” welcome evening for newcomers organized within the framework of the support activities provided by the Welcome Club will take place on Thursday April 9, 2009, at the Sainte-Adresse Regatta Palace.
The mission of this Club, run by Le Havre Développement, is to propose to local organizations and companies support for their new employees recruited from outside the region of Le Havre at all stages of their settling-in process: search for housing, job-seeking assistance for partners, children’s schooling, etc. Objective: to make their life easier.
One of the aims of the Welcome Club evenings is to bring together the newly-arrived employees in a convivial atmosphere in order to present all the services of the Club to them and to allow families to meet each other.
The services of the Welcome Club are completely free and reserved for employees of member organizations.
Information and membership application can be found under the Welcome Club heading.
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| A new railway service between Le Havre and Bordeaux |
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 04/07/2009
Rail Link Europe continues to develop its combined transport services with the port of Le Havre. On Monday March 9, a new service was launched between Le Havre and Bordeaux-Bruges.
A round trip is organized each week: departure from Le Havre TDF on Mondays at 4.30 p.m. and departure from the Bordeaux-Bruges Conteneurs Aquitaine terminal on Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
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| 1st China Europa short film competition: they conquered the jury! |
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 04/03/2009
2nd April in Le Havre, Paul Andreu, renowned architect, designer of the Bejing Grand National Theatre and president of the jury, awarded in an emotionally intense atmosphere, the prizes to the three rewarded teams of students, after the public screening of the 6 nominated films, for the First China Europa Short Films Competition.
The quality and creativity revealed by those students’ work were highly recognized by the jury, and Paul Andreu wished long life to this contest, initiated within the framework of the China Europa Business Convention, so that it may continue to reveal many other young artistic talents.
The 3 award-winning short films are:
- China Europa Grand Prize: Paysage (Thomas DEFRANCE – Normandy School of Architecture)
- City of Le Havre’s Creativity Prize: Organic HK (Isabelle MAYOR - University Paris 8)
- Net Surfer’s Prize, sponsored by the Lafarge group: Red Spirit (Wang Qianru - Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing)
You will find all relevant information about China Europa short film competition on the site of the China Europa Exhibition and Business Convention Web TV.
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| Welcome Club: welcome to newcomers! |
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 04/02/2009
Whether it be in the search for housing, partner employment, practical information support, specialized Web platforms, etc. to help local employers welcome their newly-arrived staff, and also to aid recruitment from outside of the region, Le Havre Développement offers a reinforced service, which is free and personalized.
Transferred employees, newly recruited staff or potential candidates: the agglomeration of Le Havre welcomes all with open arms. In the knowledge that arriving in a new city means starting a new life, the Welcome Club offers its members help in welcoming their new employees.
The Welcome Club proposes local organizations and companies to provide newly recruited employees with support at all stages of their settling-in: search for housing, job-seeking assistance for partners, children’s schooling, etc. Objective: to make their life easier.
Since February 2009, these services have had the benefit of a number of new tools. Thanks to an exclusive access to the “My Welcome” services and information Web platform, members will find various elements at their disposal: housing search forms, resources center for partner employment, program of events organized by the Welcome Club, etc.
Through its actions, the Welcome Club also aims at supporting its members when recruiting from outside the region, with a single objective in mind: to promote the region of Le Havre as a privileged environment to live and work in.
A communication kit made up of posters, booklets and a CD proposing internal communication elements now allows the Welcome Club members to promote the offered services as well as the numerous advantages of Le Havre to their arriving collaborators but also to targeted profiles in operations of recruitment from outside the region. These are new assets to convince people of the quality of life and work in the region of Le Havre.
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| Estuary Environment Forum: 4 major conferences/debates on themes essential for the future of our region |
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 04/02/2009
From April 14 to May 28, within the framework of the Estuary Environment Forum, take part in a cycle of 4 conferences/debates on themes linked to sustainable development applied to the characteristics of the areas making up the Seine Estuary:
- Environment and health: myths or realities.
- Understand the environment, educate for sustainable development.
- What industrial future for the Estuary? Industrial ecology, a chance for our region?
- Energy, housing, mobility, transport: how to contribute towards sustainable development.
Organized by the AURH (Town Planning Agency for Le Havre and the Seine estuary area), this cycle of conferences is part of the Estuary Environment Forum the objective of which is to mobilize the 5 areas of the Estuary to transform them into a real model of sustainable development.
Free admission to these conferences subject to availability.
Comprehensive program on the downloadable invitation below and on the site of the Estuary Environment Forum.
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| Job and Employment Forum in Le Havre: companies are recruiting! |
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 04/01/2009
The 7th Job and Employment Forum will take place in Le Havre on April 15 and 16, 2009, within the Docks Café (exhibition area). Organized by the “Maison de l’emploi Le Havre Pointe de Caux Estuaire” employment center, this event will bring together in one area recruiters, training organizations, as well as resources dedicated to advice and support for employment.
The aim of this Forum is to bring together in one area all the people involved in employment to favor a proportionate relationship between supply and demand. It has a triple objective: to facilitate recruitment in local companies through direct meeting between recruiters and candidates, to inform the public about current recruitment opportunities and to promote the training channels enabling access to these jobs.
The 2009 Forum will host 157 exhibitors including 96 companies, 36 training organizations, 9 professional organizations, 8 business set-up support facilities and 8 public service resources.
This year, about ten professional sectors are represented, the tertiary sector being dominant. 1,300 job offers are presented during the forum. The job designations are available on line, on the Internet site of the employment center.
As far as events are concerned, simulation and information workshops are organized, as well as a business discovery village intended to favor exchanges and give a concrete idea about the way the jobs are carried out.
Among the recruiting sectors which will attend the Forum, let us mention local actors in customer relations (CEA Com, etc.), retailers which will set up in the future Vauban shopping center and sectors linked to home help service and industrial maintenance.
A village dedicated to business set-ups and takeovers, organized by Le Havre Développement and the Le Havre Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will bring together organizations specializing in the support of those with projects of setting-up or taking-over businesses: Service Amorçage de projets (SAP), Le Havre Caux Initiative, Pôle Emploi, Cré’action, Réseau entreprendre, Adie, 3ES, Boutique de Gestion.
Every year, the Job and Employment Forum welcomes about 5,000 visitors over two days.
Job and Employment Forum
April 15 and 16, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Le Havre – Docks café
Admission free
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| Osilub is investing € 55 million in the region of Le Havre |
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 03/25/2009
Osilub, a joint-venture subsidiary of Veolia Environnement and Total, envisages the setting-up in Gonfreville-l’Orcher of a unit intended to recycle used motor oil. With a treatment capacity of 120,000-metric-ton-per-year, these facilities will re-refine used oils from France but also from Great Britain and Benelux countries, the final product being destined to refining for the production of new lubricants or fuels. In sight are an investment worth € 55 million, the creation of about fifty jobs and commissioning in early 2011.
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| Normandy Bridge Logistics Park: Alsei delivers the second phase of its Le Havre Stockespace program |
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 03/18/2009
Logistics investments are continuing in the region of Le Havre. With 46,000 square meters of additional warehouses in the Logistics Park of the Normandy Bridge, Alsei has doubled the warehouse surface of its Le Havre Stockespace program created for AEW Europe.
Stockespace is a multi-modal platform made up of class A warehouses. Bordering the A29 and A131 highways and in immediate proximity to container terminals, the site benefits from a railroad junction and from the proximity of a river access.
When completed, Stockespace will provide 145,000 square meters split between 3 buildings. What motivates the investor? The proximity of a large consumer market located on a major goods transportation hub which favors multi-modal operations.
This delivery will provide the number one French port for external trade and containers with new storage surfaces adapted to the current requirements of logistics professionals.
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| Fimbacte 2009 exhibition: Cities in Movement, towards a Sustainable City |
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 03/16/2009
From April 8 to 22, 2009, the Fimbacte exhibition entitled “Cities in Movement” will stop in Le Havre! Faced with future socio-economic challenges, this itinerant exhibition was implemented to make the grand public aware of the answers proposed by the construction world in terms of innovation.
Tackling the themes of urban construction, sustainable building and innovative projects, this exhibition will visit, from now to 2010, regional capitals which are undergoing transformation and developing their urban space.
Under the patronage of the French Ministry for Culture and Communication and the French Ministry of the Housing and the City, it is a real opportunity working for exchanges and information among people playing a role in the quality of life.
In a prelude to the inauguration of this exhibition, which will be held in the Le Havre Town Hall Forum, a major debate entitled “Le Havre: sustainable and maritime metropolis, its challenges as far as urbanism and development are concerned" will bring together the following people within the reception rooms of the Town Hall on Tuesday April 7, 2009, at 5 p.m.:
- Mr. Antoine Rufenacht, Mayor of Le Havre and President of the Le Havre Conurbation Community (Codah)
- Dominique DHERVILLEZ, General Manager of the Department for Large Projects, Urban Development and Planning
- Bruno FORTIER, Architect, Town Planner
- Gérard MERCHER, General Manager of Le Havre Développement
This debate will be led by Hedwige de Penfentenyo, Founding Director of Fimbacte.
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| 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese relationships: Le Havre celebrates the event! |
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 10/01/2008
The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relationships between France and Japan. More precisely, these modern relationships started on October 9, 1858, with the signature of the “Treaty of peace, friendship and commerce” between the two countries.
The Ambassador of Japan, His Excellency Yutaka IIMURA, who has expressed his wish for this commemoration to be the occasion to deepen the exchanges between our two peoples and to provide a new impetus to our common history, will honor the Le Havre events with his presence at the preview of the “Albert Brenet: Voyage to Japan” exhibition, which will take place on October 10, 2008, i.e. 150 years to the day after the signature of the bilateral Treaty.
An international commercial port particularly open to Asia, Le Havre maintains significant maritime relations with Japan which is one of its main clients.
Beyond the economic structure, the higher education establishments of Le Havre have also implemented significant exchanges with Japan or have decided to orientate their cycles of study towards Asia and Japan: University of Le Havre, Normandy Management School, Europe-Asia cycle of the Sciences Po school, etc.
The fact that the MINATO Japan-Normandy association, dedicated to cultural exchanges, has been present in Le Havre for more than 20 years, further reinforces the legitimacy of the town being chosen as a reception point for large-scale events.
Numerous events, of exceptional scale and wealth of content, will be held regularly throughout these four weeks of commemoration. Free and accessible to all, they invite enthusiasts and lovers of Japan as well as anyone interested in discovering or rediscovering this fascinating country and its original culture.
These events are listed in the official program of the Embassy of Japan in France and are co-organized in Le Havre by the Honorary Consul of Japan in Le Havre, the MINATO Japan-Normandy association, the Le Havre maritime and port museum association, the French Lines association and the UMEP (Union Maritime Et Portuaire, Port and Maritime Union).
The “ALBERT BRENET: VOYAGE TO JAPAN” exhibition will be a major event of these commemorations. For the first time, a large series of original sketches and gouaches on the subject of Japan made by the Harfleur painter Albert Brenet (1903 – 2005), painter of the Navy, will be accessible to the general public. Realized during a six-month tour in 1952, they show the interest of the artist for the modernity of Japanese cities as well as for traditional Japanese culture.
In tune with the paintings of Albert Brenet, many items linked to the artist’s journey from the collections of the French Lines association will be exhibited, as well as Japanese objects from private collectors and from the MINATO Japan-Normandy association.
The preview of the exhibition will take place on Friday October, 10, at 11 a.m., in presence of His Excellence Yutaka IIMURA, Japanese Ambassador to France.
Place and dates of the exhibition
Espace des Projets (Chaussée Kennedy)
Everyday from October 10 to November 8, 2008 included, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. – admission free
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| Memorandum of agreement and technical collaboration between the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Committee on Ports, the port of Le |
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 10/01/2008
The Organization of American States and the Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP, Comité Inter-américain des Ports) signed yesterday a memorandum of agreement and technical collaboration with the port of Le Havre Authority and the SOGET Company (first European provider for Automated Manifest System).
Four levels of collaboration result from this agreement: training, technical assistance on logistics level, participation in large events of each of these organizations and exchange of information.
According to José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, this agreement will allow the Organization Member States to benefit from the following: diversification of port technologies and savoir-faire, development of training programs and opening to training opportunities specializing in French ports, exchange of the best solutions in terms of port operations, collaboration in implementing technical programs on both continents, exchange of information and promotion of, among other things, American ports in Europe.
The objective of the Inter-American Committee on Ports is to serve as a forum for the Organization Member States and to reinforce intercontinental collaboration in the development of the port sector. The port of Le Havre Authority benefits from a solid approach in the development of ports (ex.: the “Port 2000” containerized terminal project), it has been training port officers for twenty years and it is a leading player in the field of port communities.
According to Jean-Pierre Lecomte, President of the Council of Administration of the port of Le Havre Authority: “This agreement is a significant step in the development of our mission of technical collaboration with Americas. The port of Le Havre Authority has participated in more than 300 projects in 120 countries and has already trained more than 7,500 port officers all over the world through the Port Training and Research Institute (IPER, Institut Portuaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche).”
This agreement was signed by José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jean-Pierre Lecomte, President of the Council of Administration of the port of Le Havre Authority and Jacques Ritt, Chief Executive Officer of SOGET.
The mission of SOGET, in partnership with the port of Le Havre Authority, is to allow port authorities, port communities and customs to facilitate and secure external trade by providing a Cargo Community System (CCS). SOGET is recognized as an expert by the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the CAF and the AFD and is a founder member of SEFACIL (scientific interest group for global supply-chain securization and facilitation issues).
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| Eliokem is investing to limit its production of greenhouse gas and VOC |
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 07/28/2008
The Sandouville production unit of the Eliokem group – a leading specialty chemical company – has invested € 1.35 million to bring its boilers up to current standards while saving energy. The decision to modify the boilers was in response to an obligation stated in the 2003 ministerial order which determined new and more restrictive thresholds for atmospheric emissions, with obligation to be implemented on January 1, 2008.
After the ADEME study, Eliokem decided to go further by replacing heavy fuel oil with natural gas, generating less greenhouse gas, and by installing an economizer on each boiler, to recuperate the heat from smoke in order to pre-heat the feed system.
Energy savings will reach 12% in 2008 and 20% in 2009, thanks to the installation of a second economizer on each boiler.
Replacement of heavy fuel oil with natural gas will reduce by 46% the emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide, at the origin of acid rain, will respectively almost disappear and be reduced by more than half, thus participating to constant improvement of air quality in the Le Havre region.
In addition, the 55 annual tons of VOC of the plant will be directed to boilers and destroyed by oxidization.
Photo: Eliokem
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| Results of the study of the impact of the 100 percent scanning law on organization of international trade |
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 07/24/2008
Michel DANET, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, Jacques RITT, Chief Executive Officer of SOGET, and Camille GALAP, President of the University of Le Havre, presented in Brussels on June 27, 2007, the results of the 100 percent scanning study for worldwide customs.
A significant work of study and research in the field of custom and logistic was entrusted to the University of Le Havre by the WCO. This action is supported by the SOGET Company and port actors regrouped within a scientific interest group (SEFACIL).
The study made it possible to analyze the impact of the American law “9/11 Commission Recommendations » concerning the 100% maritime cargo container scanning before loading to prevent fraud, illicit trade and terrorism. It takes into account micro and macro-economic impacts in export countries.
Frédéric CARLUER (professor at the University of Le Havre and research associate at the Normandy Business School) managed the study, assisted by Olivier JOLY (University of Le Havre) and Yann ALIX (IPER-EMN, Port Training Research Institute-Normandy Business School) and cites the main lessons learned: “We have analyzed the commercial flows very accurately. Today, among 18 million containers received by the 13 main American ports in 2006, half come from China and 75 % from Asia. This proportion should at least remain constant in 2012 (i.e. more than 22 out of the 30 million containers planned) and could even reach 78 %”.
This study constitutes a first landmark as regards research on a topic which focuses the attention of private and public actors and public opinion. These first results make it possible to objectively determine the present state of commercial flows to the United States, the status of the scanning market, the technological solutions which are currently operational and the political challenges.
This study confirms the privileged place of Le Havre in the field of the security and facility of international trade. As the leading customs reception point, receiving 66% of French external trade leaving France, Le Havre responds to the concerns of the World Customs Organization and positions itself within West Europe as the specialist in French-speaking customs research and training within the PICARD international program.
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| Center for the treatment and recovery of industrial wastes: the expansion works are progressing in Sandouville! |
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 07/23/2008
SEMEDI, a semi-public company, has just announced the implementation of a rotary furnace (13.50 m in length, with a diameter of 5 m) on a new line of treatment of hazardous industrial wastes under construction on its site of Sandouville, operated by the SEDIBEX Company.
The launching of this third line is planned for the beginning of 2009 and will allow the creation of 6 direct jobs and 15 indirect jobs.
This € 35 million investment in modernization and expansion will reinforce the capacity of treatment of hazardous wastes, which will pass from 137,700 to 165,000 tons per year. This project regroups 60 to 80 persons from operating companies, i.e. almost 200,000 worked hours since it started in August 2007.
In addition to the treatment capacity, the project includes the installation of a boiler for waste energy recovery (23 ph at 40 bars) and of two gas cleaning towers which will reinforce the action of the existing towers to meet the requirements of European rules in the field of emissions.
An installation of primary importance at the disposal of industry, environmental protection and regional development, the Sandouville site has treated and recovered almost 3,000,000 tons of hazardous industrial wastes since its creation in 1977.
Created in 1975, the SEMEDI regroups 11 industries of the Upper-Normandy region, the Seine–Maritime department, the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Le Havre and Bolbec and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (public financial institution in charge of managing private funds). The SEMEDI studies, decides and finances the investments of the Sandouville center which treats the hazardous wastes of almost 450 industries from Upper-Normandy and neighboring regions.
The SEDIBEX Company, a subsidiary wholly-owned by the VEOLIA Propreté Group, operates the Sandouville center and employs 70 direct and indirect staff. ISO 14001 certified since 2004, the Center uses 75% of its capacity to treat the hazardous industrial wastes of the Normandy industrial sites.
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| CSAV Agency opens a new maritime agency in Le Havre |
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 07/21/2008
The fruit of a joint venture between the CSAV (Compañia Sud Americana de Vapores) group and the Currie and Navitainer entities, this new agency will represent all the services ensured by the CSAV group, i.e. CSAV, CSAV NORASIA and LIBRA.
CSAV AGENCY (France) S.A.S. will represent the regular container services departing from France to or from Asia (1 call/week), the Middle East and the Indian Sub-Continent (1 call/week), South America (East and West Coasts - 3 calls/week) Central America and the West Indies (1 call/week).
CSAV AGENCY (France) S.A.S. will also represent monthly roll-on/roll-off services to South America.
The commercial and operational start will be effective on August 1, 2008.
CSAV AGENCY (France) s.a.s., managed by Frank Bachelet, will be composed of about 50 people mainly localized in Le Havre (head office), Paris (branch office) and Marseille (South of France, agency). The commercial network will be present on these 3 sites and in Lyon (center of France).
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| Jean Nouvel inaugurates the "Bains des Docks" swimming pool in Le Havre |
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 07/18/2008
Le Havre and all its suburbs entered a new phase within the large urban refurbishment program which is transforming the Le Havre southern districts. Thursday July 17, 2008 saw the inauguration of the “Bains des Docks” brand new 5,000m2 aquatic complex designed by the architect Jean Nouvel.
On the site of the former coffee warehouses, the “Bains des Docks” is another element symbolizing the reclaiming of former port areas. Liberally inspired by Roman thermal baths, this original building was "imagined as a widening of the wharf, (…) a raw and hollow mass that visitors discover as a metallic carapace, changing with the specific light of Le Havre”.
A set of random openings piercing the façades allow a view from the exterior of the wealth of the inner spaces inhabited by water. The entry is located on the “Quai de la Réunion”, in front of the future Sustainable Development and Sea Center whose 120-meter tower, also the fruit of the imagination of Jean Nouvel, will constitute a new symbol for the city and its suburbs in the years to come.
The architecture of the “Bains des Docks” pools draws its inspiration from natural swimming pools dug out of the earth. Each pool is provided with a different shape and theme: water temperature, games for children, jets and projections of light on the ceilings and in the water.
A water slide occupies an enclosed space. Only entrance and exit are visible. It appears to be sculpted into the mass. Lighting on its path makes this a spectacular attraction.
The large external water area (21 x 51m) is overhung by a control area which provides the necessary special effects for events on the lagoons or the large external beaches.
The “Bains des Docks” also offers a water therapy center whose pools are designed to meet the requirements of a health care center. They contain the sauna, the Turkish bath, the cold pool, the heated pool and collective and individual spas.
The construction of the “Bains des Docks” swimming pool is part of a program of three large sports, leisure and aquatic equipment projects supported by the CODAH (Communauté de l’Agglomération Havraise, community of the urban area) covering the communities of Le Havre, Montivilliers and Gonfreville l’Orcher.
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| Le Havre welcomes the 29th Meeting of French Public Urban Planning Agencies |
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 07/17/2008
From October 22 to 24, 2008, Le Havre will welcome in the Docks Café the 29th Meeting of French Public Urban Planning Agencies, the central topic being: “The call of the sea: the city and its larger-scale territories”.
For urban planning professionals from all over France, this 2008 edition will be a unique opportunity to focus on and discuss about the concept of “large-scale territories”, what constitutes them and leads them to evolve, and their mode of governance. Practical approaches will also study the analysis indicators, the infrastructures and the development planning tools.
A comprehensive program of debates and thematic workshops will be proposed on October 23 and 24. Among the topics tackled: “The territory of ports”, “The large-scale territory, the commune and the citizen: which solidarity?”, “Large-scale territories and transport”, “Economic strategies and performance of large-scale territories”, etc.
These three days, rich in content and sharing of experience, will be punctuated by visits which will allow discovery of Le Havre architectural heritage, the large-scale urban and economic projects of the city and of the Seine estuary.
Jointly organized by the FNAU (Fédération Nationale des Agences d’Urbanisme, National Federation of the Public Urban Planning Agencies) and the AURH (Agence d’Urbanisme de la Région Havraise, Urban Planning Agency for the Region of Le Havre), this edition is benefiting from the official support of the French Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional Policy, of the city of Le Havre, of the CODAH (Communauté de l’Agglomération Havraise, Le Havre urban area community), of the port of Le Havre authority and of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Le Havre.
General and practical information as well as registration on the official site of the event:
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| Pharmaceutical industry: Oril invests € 80 million on its Bolbec site |
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 07/17/2008
Whereas a new 7,500 m2 unit intended for the production of the components of a new drug aiming at fighting osteoporosis has just been inaugurated on July 3 on its Bolbec site, Oril Industrie – specializing in R&D and production of active principles for the pharmaceutical industry and a subsidiary of the Servier Group – has announced a new program of investment.
The two plants set up in Bolbec will thus benefit by 2011 from the implementation of two new units particularly dedicated to packaging, logistics and manufacture of new active constituents. The investment worth € 80 million will also allow modernization of facilities.
The Bolbec site, which produces all the constituents for the parent company, is proud of its know-how and attractiveness as more than € 150 millions have been invested over the last 5 years by the Servier Group.
Photo: the Servier Group
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| The Insa enriches the offer for higher education in the Le Havre region |
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 06/19/2008
Only a few months after the first students of the new Euro-Asian cycle of Sciences-Po (one of the world’s most prestigious public affairs institutions) were welcomed in Le Havre, the Insa (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, graduate school of science and technology) has just announced its decision to set up a training program in civil engineering in the Seine estuary town.
In view of the difficulties encountered by the Building and Civil Engineering sector in France in recruiting qualified labor, the setting-up in Le Havre of the Insa marks the will of the famous graduate school to meet these crucial challenges.
The launching of this degree course dedicated to civil engineering with specializations in environment and maritime civil engineering will be highly symbolic within a territory that is already exemplary in these fields.
With the benefit of grand programs of urban refurbishment and ambitious equipment installation projects, Le Havre clearly positions itself as a city of good practices in terms of sustainable urban development. The major modernization projects for the port infrastructures will also represent a concrete application of practical and theoretical teaching that the engineering students will receive.
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