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| The multimodal terminal, a major investment decision for the Le Havre Port of Authority (GPMH) |
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 06/25/2010
The GPMH supervisory body has just validated the setting up of the multimodal terminal project, subject to finalization of financing and the necessary administrative authorizations. Works should start next March and commissioning is planned for the second half of year 2013.
Firstly, this multimodal platform meets the ever increasing demands of port clients to be provided with logistic lines including large numbers of considerable and competitive offers. The challenge deals with circulation of trains, barges and trucks filled with products, in order to condense deliveries and thus reduce their costs. For Christian Feuvre, Deputy Director of Le Havre Port of Authority Operations, “the multimodal platform is the primary answer to the economic equation of consolidated transports: it will provide all the long-distance operators, whether they are river or railway operators, with an economical, reliable and efficient access. Thanks to this new tool, the carrying agents will benefit from new logistics services”. The investment, estimated at € 139.4 million, is financed by the GMPH to the level of € 42 million and by LH2T (Le Havre Terminal Trimodal, the investing company which is performing the work) for € 27 million, the rest coming from subsidies.
An additional advantage for the comprehensive logistics solution of the Seine axis, which contributes to the Grenelle Environment Forum to a large extent, with prospects of traffic, under normal circumstances, which should be around 300,000 TEUs per year. This will make it possible to save 500,000 tons of CO2 per year, particularly thanks to the development of river freight, ensuring an increase in modal parts from 15% to 25% by 2020.
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| GPMH and SOGET, Le Havre experts on the benchmark for the worldwide Port Community Systems |
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 03/09/2010
A world first, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) is launching a comparative study of the Port Community Systems (PCS) on an international scale. A team of nine experts representing the French, British and Spanish port areas was appointed by the IAPH General Secretariat.
Among these experts, Jérôme Besancenot (Port of Le Havre Authority) and Olivier Jean-Degauchy (SOGET) represent the Le Havre port area.
The objective of the study is make a comparison between the PCS of Felixstowe, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Le
Havre, Marseilles, Barcelona, Valencia and Haifa, and in Asia: China, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. The study started on February 24, 2010, with a first visit of the port of Barcelona. On March 8 and 9, 2010, the port of Le Havre and the Cargo Community System ‘CCS’ AP+ will be audited by experts from the Felixstowe port.
The aim of this study is to determine the main characteristics of each PCS in service worldwide. The results will make it possible to clarify the different models of PCS, as well as other important aspects of these systems such as: the range of their functions, the way they manage their business, the actors having access to the system, the financing mode.
According to Olivier Jean-Degauchy, manager of the product department at SOGET: “The results of this study will be particularly useful for the ports of developing countries, both on PCS functionalities and on the experience of the various Communities studied within the framework of this project, particularly the Le Havre system we will present at SOGET”.
This study will be conducted over the year 2010 and the final report will be published during the "World Port Conference" of the IAPH, which will take place in Busan from May 23 to 27, 2011.
SOGET is a private-public partnership between the Le Havre shipping community and the Le Havre Port of Authority, with the support of the French Customs since its creation.
Its main products are the Cargo Community System, operational in the main French ports, and the electronic customs procedure solutions.
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| Le Havre Port Authority and Tourist Office: partners to promote cruising activity in Le Havre |
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 03/09/2010
Le Havre Port of Authority (GPMH) and Tourist Office have just signed a convention intended to favour development of cruising activity in Le Havre.
Le Havre currently receives about fifty calls per year, and in 2009 welcomed more than 86,000 passengers, who took advantage of their stay to visit our region, bringing a direct benefit to the local economy. Thanks to the efforts the Tourist Office has been making in recent years, these figures have shown a significant increase: about 30% in 2010.
Located at the “Pointe de Floride”, the facilities which are used to welcome and inform the cruise passengers and cover a surface of almost 3,000 m², are now grouped together under the “Terminal croisière” designation.
They are operated and managed by the Tourist Office which ensures the commercial promotion of the port of Le Havre to welcome calling liners and makes a specific effort to attract “gateway” calls, i.e. calls enabling passengers to embark or debark.
Picture: Vincent Rustuel
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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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| 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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The team
Setting-up services
Welcome club
General economy
