These traffic avoid 800000 trucks per year

Born on an island, Paris remained in osmosis with its river. But decades of glory of the truck did forget the essential role of the river Seine that Grand Paris and Le Havre-Paris axis are rediscovering. The Autonomous Port of Paris (PAP) is better "explain his important role for the Ile-de-France", says its new Director General, Hervé Martel. Two steps to provide the opportunity: the forty years of the PAP, feted the next February, and a new strategic project here in the summer to give the readability to investments (EUR 38.8 million in 2010) and its land policy.

Hervé Martel said first anxious to preserve the traditional sectors, affected by the crisis, but stable in market share. The construction industry, with aggregate supply or output of wastes workings, thus represents three quarters of the activity. These traffic avoid 800,000 trucks per year. "It sector history to remember, even when aggregate will come from below, though the igneous rocks of the France centre or the limestone to the North."

The novelty is the maritime container activity, which has developed explosive in the hinterland of the port of le Havre. Six specialized operators have created shuttles between the ports from Normandy and Ile-de-France, where a network of platforms was created: after Gennevilliers, which has doubled, have adapted the ports in Bonneuil and Lemay. Bruyère-sur-Oise is attributable contribution, Evry will open, and then my te Office in 2012. "We are entering a true market, which is now comparable to the road." "The PAP wants to accompany its growth," said Hervé Martel. Distribution groups reflect to freshwater supplies from Le Havre. In ten years, traffic was multiplied by ten. It should pass 100,000 "boxes" TEU today to to 340,000 end of 2012.

The PAP has reserves of capacity to go beyond and aims 600,000 boxes on the horizon of 2020. His main card is the port of Achères, at the confluence of the Oise and the Seine River (and therefore in the market of the future canal Seine North) downstream of Paris and who should deal with 100,000 to 200,000 boxes. It will start with 120 hectares before 300 or 400 until 2017 and 2020 that will be operated a reserve of granu lats. The PAP has appointed a project full-time on this file manager.

"Last mile".

In addition, several shippers in messaging, materials and logistics operators study inter-city River logistics projects to limit the transport of "last mile". Carrefour studied thus supplies in Paris in boats via Evry. Other emerging sectors include waste and recycling. The most emblematic experience is that of the UPM paper, which implemented since 2008 shuttles between Gennevilliers and Rouen. Other projects have emerged in its wake: a plant for processing plastic bottles from the selective sorting to Lemay, another in the same site to transform waste food oils into biofuels. Reflections are underway for bulky waste and sewage sludge.

The reform of maritime ports opened the possibility to these ports to intervene via subsidiaries outside their ridings. The current statutes of the PAP do not allow such an approach, but the Minister plans to fix them. A logical network and basin could open up to the PAP, which could invest in the platform for interface sea-river of le Havre, in the Seine North Channel platforms or ports of initiatives from local communities such as Nogent-sur-Seine, Gron or Longueuil-Sainte-Marie, in project in the Oise département.