Rouen going with the grain

HAROPA sea ports (Le Havre, Rouen) posted their best H1 hinterland container numbers for five years in H1 2018, with more than 1M TEU, including a 12.6% increase to 76,000 TEU in container barge traffic to/from Port of Paris, HAROPA’s third member. Rouen has just received its first call from a vessel arriving from Asia via the Northern Sea route

A 153,000 m3 LNG carrier has been loaded at the Dunkirk LNG plant; ship-to-ship LNG bunkering has taken place in Bilbao for the first time;construction of the planned new LNG plant is under way in Gotheburg

Ports in north eastern France (Hauts de France) have set up a new assocation to promote their interests

Traffic over France’s main ports was fairly stable in 2016, due to cyclical factors and in line with the overall performance of the French economy.

Lo-lo container traffic at Dunkirk increased by 7% in unit and by 4% in tonnage terms in 2016 respectively to 341,041 TEU and 3.15 Mt, establishing new records

Waste management company Indaver plans to build a new chlorine waste recycling plant on port land