Le Havre’s Supervisory Board awarded a concession for the construction and operation of a dry bulk terminal to the company Lorany Conseils.
“The resumption of multi-bulk operations is the outcome of shared, coordinated effort alongside the various port complexes along the Seine Axis”, Baptiste Maurand, Le Havre Port’s CEO, said.
“Our coordinated approach with the ports of Rouen and Paris is in fact aimed at the joint construction of an axis strategy based around dry bulk, covering not only activities now being developed in the port but also the potential represented by an industrial resource of this kind.”
Sustainable development
The multi-bulk terminal on the southern bank of Le Havre’s Grand Canal has been free of occupants since May 2019.
The industrial resource to be developed on the area of 14 hectares will be able to resume activity as early as summer 2021.
It is designed to process over 400,000 tonnes of goods from the first year of operation and to exceed a million tonnes of maritime and river traffic by its tenth year.
A facility for the reception and recycling of earth and sediment is planned, eventually leading to annual maritime and river traffic of 270,000 tonnes. A project for slag imports is also currently under way, as is the creation of a concrete production plant based exclusively on recycled materials.
In addition, the terminal is adjacent to available land just back from the facility, thus offering a possibility of development of high-performance industrial activities possibly focused on sustainable development and the environment.