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Port of Le Havre

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The Ocean terminal with the Bougainville quay which is a public Terminal is located after the lock (constant level basin), its total area is 40 HA. There are 2 sheds, total area 15 000 square metres. The quay is 1.666 metres long with a water depth of 12.90 metres in a constant level basin. There are
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The south terminal with approximately 80 ha consists of the Normandy terminal with the Asia and Osaka wharf: They are located before the lock in a tidal basin. The 2 quays offer a capacity of 1075 M dredged at 14 M. It is a private terminal : The yard facilities and the quay equipment belong to
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The main responsibility of the Harbour office is to constantly manage sea transport through traffic forecasts, traffic control, berthing of ships, navigation assistance, radar coverage, radio connections, collection and dissemination of information, co-ordination of operations, and remote control of
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In 2010, Le Havre cruise port hosted 70 calls and 130,000 passengers and should, in 2011, accommodate 90 calls and 170,000 (+23%) with several maiden calls, including : AIDASol, Queen Elizabeth, MSC Opera, MSC Magnifica, Mein Schiff 2, Ventura and also calls from Aida Cruises, Costa, Princess
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It is 887 metres in length and comprises 2 Over-panamax cranes with 18 container carriers. Moreover, it is equipped with 1 "LHM 500" mobile crane which has a maximum load of 100 tonnes. The draught is 14.3 metres at constant level. Each crane returns a productivity of 18 containers per hour. The
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The "Grand Port Maritime du Havre" is a public institution taking care of administrative public service tasks and missions of industrial and commercial public service. It is operated as a public institution of trade and industry and is responsible for the management of all port facilities in its
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The port of Le Havre deals with every type of commodities thanks to the diversity of its terminals. Le Havre was the first container port in France and as a consequence retains a lot of facilities. Nowadays, the port of Le Havre includes three sets of terminals dedicated to containers and 6.5
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Nevertheless, with more than a thousand mooring rings, Le Havre marina has underestimated its success. In order to deal with the increasing demand, Le Havre is planning to open a new marina: Port Vauban. Using the old dock present in the city centre, 500 moorings rings will be created at the
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It is 484 metres length and comprises 4 Over-panamax cranes including 3 with 18 container carriers and 1 with 20 container carriers. The draught is 14.5 metres at low tide. Each crane returns a productivity of 22 containers per hour. The ground slots corresponds to 3 400 TEUS.
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It was put into service in 1968 and has a total area of 20 square metres. The wharf is 800 metres in length. It comprises 4 Over-panamax cranes of 60T with 18 container carriers. The yard facilities and the quay equipment belong to the company C.N.M.P.
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district. It is run by a Management Board of four members. Its surveillance council is composed of State representatives, employees, territorial community (Upper Normandy, Seine Maritime, CODAH and Le Havre) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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peripheral equipment. It also has to control the flow of navigation on its territory and manage the arrivals and departures of ships. It is also in charge of policing the harbour area, monitoring dangerous goods and organising pollution control.
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Containers road traffic and hinterland increased by 13%, railway traffic by 5% and barge river by 16%. Beside the modern harbour infrastructures, Le Havre enjoys all necessary networks allowing logistic companies to despatch arriving goods:
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The "Port 2000" terminal includes the France terminal and Oceana gate terminal with Le Havre wharf. The France terminal is managed by G.M.P and was put into service in 2006. The Oceana gate terminal is managed by T.P.O.
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In addition, five firms are capable of handling and storing the liquid bulk and two firms manage the flows of gasoil and fuel. Moreover, the port of Le Havre is competent to accommodate full bulk carriers.
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Le Havre opened a new terminal to accommodate passengers in optimum conditions. The terminal is fully equipped with a new baggage scanner, baggage handling area and check in counters.
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Nowadays it offers around 1160 mooring rings, a wedge launch and a bunkering station. However, several services such as electricity and water supplies are available for the users.
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Furthermore, this port is a real international facility for the vehicles flows. Thus, it is equipped, with a RoRo centre, with specific facilities to RoRo ships of all size.
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As a door to the most frequented seas (The English Channel and the North Sea), Le Havre offers a pilotage service to enhance the safety of cruising in these areas.
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motorways allowing rapid access north to the Lille area (3h) and the Benelux, south to Nantes and Bordeaux, and east to the Paris area in less than 2 hours.
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In 2022, the port handled more than 3 million containers. Of the 27 tonnes of cocaine seized in France in 2022, more than two thirds came from this port.
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The river network services (around 14% of goods) are in constant development and connect the port and industrial area of Le Havre with the Paris region.
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The port of Le Havre is the second commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage after Marseille and the largest container port in the country.
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This new port is part of a global redevelopment project of the city neighbourhood, with the creation of a commercial centre (Docks Vauban) and the
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cities. Due to its geographical location, on the Seine River mouth, at the entrance of the Channel, Le Havre is a gateway to Normandy and Paris.
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With the increasing popularity of cruises in Europe, Le Havre is becoming a handy starting port, especially for Northern Europe cruises.
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The railway network freight service (around 14% of goods) offers an access to the whole European continent within one or two days..
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kilometres of docks: The north terminal has approximately 96 ha of central reservation and consists of three terminals:
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of Le Havre. If masters of the ships have received a pilot's licence, they are allowed to do it alone.
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Ships longer than 70 metres or transporting dangerous goods must receive the help of a pilot from the
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110721005743/http://lehavre.fr/dossier/le-port-de-plaisance-0
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Between December 2004 and December 2005, the Port of Le Havre handled (in tons per year):
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ground slots correspond to 7 800 TEUS and the empty blockstow correspond to 2 400 TEUS.
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http://www.lehavretourisme.com/fr/croisiere/le-havre-port-de-croisiere.html
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the company SETN. It is equipped with 5 super overpanamax gantry cranes.
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The port of Le Havre can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners.
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Plan of the Port, showing terminal locations and principal uses.
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Le Havre marina accepts boats 24/7 without any tidal stress.
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The second is Americas terminal with Americas wharf :
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swimming complex designed by the famous French architect
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The Port of Le Havre is managed by a state agency called
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And the third is Atlantic terminal with Atlantic wharf.
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The port consists of a series of canal-like docks, the
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Grand Port Maritime du Havre - Statistiques 1999-2011
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Grand Port Maritime du Havre - Statistiques 1999-2011
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7 ships to shore gantry cranes and 1 x 100 T crane.
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Port 2000

Country
France
Le Havre
Coordinates
49°28′30″N 0°08′00″E / 49.475°N 0.133333°E / 49.475; 0.133333
Vessel
Annual cargo
tonnage
tonnes
container
TEU
Passenger
www.haropaports.com/en/lehavre
Port
port authority
Le Havre
Portsmouth
Canal de Tancarville
Grand Canal du Havre
Le Havre
Seine
Pont de Tancarville

Brittany Ferries
Portsmouth
LD Lines
pilot station
Oil

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