Port of Le Havre - Port Facilities

Port Facilities

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 kilometres of docks: The north terminal has approximately 96 ha of central reservation and consists of three terminals:

• The first is European terminal with Europe wharf:

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 ground slots correspond to 7 800 TEUS and the empty blockstow correspond to 2 400 TEUS.

• The second is Americas terminal with Americas wharf :

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.

• And the third is Atlantic terminal with Atlantic wharf.

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.

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 the company SETN. It is equipped with 5 super overpanamax gantry cranes.

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 7 ships to shore gantry cranes and 1 x 100 T crane.

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.

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.

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:

• Main use (73%) are the A29 and A131 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.
• The railway network freight service (around 14% of goods) offers an access to the whole European continent within one or two days..
• 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.