France

• L’association française des ports intérieurs (AFPI)
• APROPORT – Ports de CHALON SUR SAONE et MACON
• Port Rhénan de Colmar Centre-Alsace
• Port de Lyon
• Port of Paris
• Ports de Lille
• Portes les Valence (DRÖME)
• Port of Villefranche sur Saône

L’association française des ports intérieurs (AFPI)

Created in 1994, the French Association of Inland Ports (AFPI) merges 21 ports, representing the main navigation basins of France.

The AFPI objectives are to point out inland port’s contribution in economic performances, to promote the best practices between its members, to share experience and know-how and to represent the French inland ports at the local, regional, national and international levels.

www.afpi.org

APROPORT – Ports de CHALON SUR SAONE et MACON

APROPORT is the river port department of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Saône-et-Loire. It operates multimodal platforms in Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon. These are both situated on the Rhône-Saône axis, within a maximum of two days of Marseille/Fos and Sète by waterway.
Aproport has been established as a logistics partner dedicated to the regional economy. It offers a full range of services related to transport and logistics, thanks to its specialised personnel and wide range of high-powered equipment.

Contact
Bernard PAILLARD
Director General
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APROPORT - Direction générale
Avenue Pierre Nugue - BP 70173
71105 Chalon-sur-Saône cedex
Tél.: 03 85 46 86 10
Fax: 03 85 46 86 19
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www.aproport.com

Port Rhénan de Colmar Centre-Alsace

“Competencies attending to our customers and their Supply Chain“

According to its customers, the strengths of Colmar Neuf Brisach’s Rhine Port are :

• Attention, Flexibility and Proximity
• Competencies and Equipments
• Stocking platform, warehousing and picking to order

Men and women who work daily as a team, and for some of them who worked over the last 37 years, are those who make this difference.

Formerly almost exclusively focused on the transport of goods in bulk, the water transport becomes today a way that companies now privilege to route manufactured products, often originating from the large import, by containers.

This process has been magnified amplified over the past 10 years following delocalisations and outsourcings to lower cost countries.

By becoming a regrouping flows area, the port further provides in many instances the benefit of an upstream and downstream multimodal transportation, railway, and road transportation in combination with the waterway.

These concentrated assets go beyond their logics aiming for companies to stock and prepare, on location, products to be sold on the spot.

Contact
Marc Lagarde
Directeur Exploitation
Port Rhénan de Colmar Centre Alsace
Silos portuaires S.I.C.A.
Tel.: 00 33 (0)3 89 72 39 29
Fax: 00 33 (0)3 89 72 69 92
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Website: www.colmar.cci.fr/activites-portuaires/port-de-colmar-neuf-brisach.html

Port de Lyon

Lyon Terminal SA, located within the port of Lyon Edouard Herriot, is specialised in containers handlings and heavy lifts.
Lyon Terminal is a multimodal platform (barge/rail/road) that can also offer you storage of containers (via an integrated computerized system), engineering/consulting, customs services, stuffing/unstuffing, trade and repair of containers and transport. Naturally linked to Marseille/Fos, Lyon Terminal runs 2 terminals, on a total surface of 20 hectares.

Contact
Lyon Terminal S.A.
Port de Lyon Édouard Herriot
11 rue Jean Bouin,
69007 Lyon - France
Tél : + 33 (0) 472 80 16 72
Fax : + 33 (0) 472 73 41 62
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Website: www.lyon-terminal.fr

Port of Paris

The Port of Paris Authority, between land and water

Serving the greater Paris area, the Port of Paris Authority (PAP) is France's foremost river port. Many people do not realize that, having handled approximatively 20 million tons in 2009, it is the second largest in Europe. Moreover, it plays a key role in tourism through passenger transport as well as tourist-oriented and leisure activities. In 2007, more than seven million passengers were transported that way, making it the Number One tourist port in Europe.

Without the PAP, which handles 13% of regional supplies, the capacity of several local motorways would have to be doubled. It is a fact that every 5,000-ton pushed convoy arriving at a Parisian port replaces 250 trucks on the roads.

River Seine and its tributaries, which cover the entire region, can be called an "infrastructure" in logistics jargon, but it is a special one operating 24 hours a day, 363 days a year and still has capacity to spare! Without any further investment, river Seine could accommodate three times as much traffic as it does today. Having been improved to large-gauge standards and opened to coastal freighters, it now ranks as the second waterway in Europe, giving access to the three major PAP facilities, Gennevilliers, Bonneuil and Limay, all connected to rail and road networks.

The Port of Paris Authority has reached a high level of intermodality. Its main platforms offer up to five transport modes: river, of course, plus maritime, road, rail, and also pipelines (at Gennevilliers and Nanterre). The PAP is also a network of 70 storage and distribution ports, 1,000 hectares of port and industrial land, and about one million m² of warehouses, industrial and office spaces.

Since it was founded in 1970, this public authority has become a kind of "freight subway" that serves the local economy. And by carrying away domestic trash, industrial wastes and construction rubble, it helps keep the urban environment clean. But this "subway" is located above ground on the river banks, a highly visible open space, dear to Parisian hearts, and as such is sensitive to public opinion. Responding to this situation, the PAP has launched major landscaping, architectural and urban planning integration campaigns.

Budgeting 200 million euros for the five next years, the Port of Paris Authority plans to concentrate on developing combined container transport systems, direct sea-river shipping routes and new port facilities.

Achères, a new port for “Grand Paris”

A gateway to the Ile de France region, strategically located at the confluence of the River Seine and the River Oise, the port of Achères is THE biggest port infrastructure project for the next fifteen years, representing an outstanding opportunity for the development of river traffic in the region.

The aim is to start work as quickly as possible, with operation scheduled for 2015-2020, in order to increase the capacity of Ports de Paris to 500/600,000 TEU by 2020. This will alow the Port of Paris authority, together with the existing network of multimodal platforms (Gennevilliers, Bonneuil and Limay) to support the development of container traffic in the Ile de France region.

Port Autonome de Paris becomes Ports de Paris: a new graphic identity for a fresh start.

After considering the port’s missions and the growth of river traffic, the new “Ports de Paris” brand symbolises the future with a short name and a very open logo. This new visual identity coincides with its fortieth anniversary and emphasises the start of a new era for river transport.

Contact
Port de Paris
2, Quai de Grenelle
75732 PARIS CEDEX 15 - France

Website: www.paris-ports.fr

Ports de Lille

With a total traffic of 6, 5 million tons in 2009, Ports of Lille is one of the most important inland ports in France. It manages several sites in the heart of the third most active economic area in France, the Nord Pas de Calais Region and its capital city Lille.
Land management, logistics, handling of goods, container terminals and a wide range of services are proposed by Ports of Lille. Partner of companies, Ports of Lille is also involved in public interest questions, like waste logistic management and urban distribution.

Contact
Port de Lille
Place Leroux de Faukemont
B.P. 1394 R.P.
59015 Lille Cedex
Tél.: : 03.20.22.73.80
Fax : 03.20.22.81.67
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Website: www.portdelille.com

Portes les Valence (DRÖME)

Multimodal platform (river, road, railway) of Valence / Portes les Valence is settled and managed by Drôme Chamber of Commerce, and is specialised in storage and handling.
Products in transit on the site, can be imported or exported by trucks, train, shipped on barges (up to 1500t).

Handling products can be:

• Containers 20’ or 40’
• mobile boxes
• heavy parcels
• Intermediate conditioned goods
• wood block or log
• in bulk

Infrastructure

Total Surface: 8 ha

• 2ha : Containers plateform
• 9 800 m² warehouse (whose 3400m² bonded warehouse – height : 8m)
• storage warehouse
• 340 m quay
• weighbridge
• storage area : 3ha
• custom offices

Equipment:

• mobile crane (40T at 17m) : log grapple, spreader (20’ and 40’), sling…
• railway in all industrial area
• 340m² quay
• bridge crane (8T)
• track loaders
• watch for work vehicles
• power lift truck
• container dolly
• weighbridge (50T)

Moreover, Drôme Chamber of Commerce opened with LOGIRHONE a Fos-Valence container liner in the Rhône River from the Mediterranean.

For information, indicative transport quotation for containers 20’ and 40’ Dc for a delivery in Portes es Valence port are :

• Fos / Valence / with transplanting containers in Valence 20’Dc 320€/ 40’DC 345€
• Fos / Valence / with transplanting containers in Lyon 20’Dc 390€ / 40’Dc 415€

This allows use of combined transport (on the Rhône River between Fos and Portes les Valence) with an inferior cost to road)
Portes les Valence site is becoming a logistic hub for transport from Drôme, Ardèche, Isère and others regions located on the Rhône valley.
Information on the multimodal hub are available on the website :

Website: www.drome-portdecommerce.com

Port of Villefranche sur Saône

Lyon North Port, specialized in bulk and heavy loads

The port of Villefranche sur Saône is ideally located in the heart of the Rhône-Alpes region, on the large size Saône-Rhône way. It has access to numerous motorways and roads.
Villefranche-sur-Saône offers its clients a large variety of multimodal solutions: by train (both single and complete convoys), by road, by short-sea and inland waterways.

Thanks to big investments, high-performance equipment and an experienced team, the Villefranche-sur-Saône port will provide clients customized and added value solutions for the logistics handling and storage of goods.

Fertilizers, sand, gravel, cereals, metal, salt or wood… Villefranche-sur-Saône will find solutions to your specific logistics needs.

Key-figures:

• A 24 ha trimodal site for business implantation
• 40 ha in the next 5 years
• A 5000m2 covered warehouse and about 5 ha for other storage
• A 350m quay
• 2 Liebherr A944 wheeled excavators
• Forklift trucks, bobcats, wheel loaders… and other polyvalent engines and machines for a large combination of logistics solutions.

Contact details
Port Public de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Beaujolais
175 rue Denis Papin
69400 Villefranche sur Saône

Represented by: M. N. Comte, President

Contact
Dupré Florent
Responsable d’Exploitation
317 bd Gambetta, B.P 70427
69654 VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-SAONE CEDEX
Tél.: +33 (0) 4 74 02 71 50
Fax. +33 (0) 4 74 02 71 59
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Website: www.beaujolais-cci.com