The number of cruise passengers will increase in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime).
Three new terminals, intended to accommodate more stopover liners, will be built by 2025 for an investment of 100 million euros, the mayor and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced on Monday.
"To welcome more ships and cruise passengers, in better conditions, while respecting environmental issues", such is the objective of this project, he assured.
The aim is to welcome 600,000 cruise passengers in 2030 with some 200 stopovers, compared to around 350,000 in 2022 with 125 stopovers.
Before the pandemic, the city had welcomed in 2018, a record year, 420,000 cruise passengers and 145 stopovers.
An “urban development” project
The cost of the project is 100 million euros, including 60 million devoted to the development and construction of the terminals.
This component is financed by the Normandy Regional Council (15 million), the Seine Métropole Urban Community (15 million) and a loan of 30 million from the Le Havre Croisières Public Interest Group (GIP), set up for this purpose by the Community urban and Haropa Port.
About 40 million euros - 20 million from the State and 20 million from Haropa Port - are also planned for port infrastructure.
A new cruise port in 2025 will make Le Havre a future destination for sustainable cruising. attractive.
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"The outlook for the cruise business is extremely favourable, with global growth of 30% expected by 2030," said Florian Weyer, Deputy CEO of Haropa Port Le Havre.
In 2023, 153 stopovers are already scheduled, for around 400,000 cruise passengers.
It is also an “urban development” project, underlined the mayor.
“Zero smoke” stopovers
These new terminals will be built on Pointe de Floride, currently occupied by aging hangars, where cruise ships are nevertheless already accommodated.
Equipped with a green promenade, this site will become a space open to the public, with a panoramic view of the city, "while retaining its port dimension", specified Edouard Philippe.
Following a consultation in 2021, the project selected is that of the Enia and Bettinger Desplanques agencies, associated with Legendre Génie civil.
“At the entrance to the port of Le Havre, visible from everywhere, this new development had to be iconic and memorable,” commented Brice Piechaczyk, architect.
For Edouard Philippe, at a time when the nuisances of liners are disputed in several ports, this project should be welcomed positively.
“We are reviving a Le Havre tradition (...) Here, the cruise business is historic and adds to that of containers in a major commercial port.
The people of Le Havre are very attached to it, ”assured the mayor.
And to add: “We are committed, well before European regulations impose it, to “zero smoke” stopovers, on fully electrified quays”.
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