“Several hundred million euros” must be put on the table.
Haropa port (the merger of the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris) has just announced that the Dubai company, Al Khaleej Sugar (AKS), had been selected to upgrade a former industrial platform located in Moulineaux and Grand-Couronne
,
near Rouen (Seine-Maritime).
The company's objective: "to set up one of the largest white sugar production plants in Europe there, from beets", explains
Ouest-France
.
A project which could be completed in 2025, according to Haropa, and create 300 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs, “in particular thanks to the contracts signed with the farmers in order to guarantee the supply of beets”.
Sugar which should be intended for export to North Africa and southern Europe.
The group belonging to a sovereign fund of the United Arab Emirates nevertheless already attracts the wrath of environmentalists and residents.
Fears are expressed “around pollution, odors, the impact on the landscape near a classified area, and the heavy road traffic that the activity could generate”,
summarizes
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