Olympic Games 2024: the fear of cereal farmers faced with the closure of the Seine. Between the influx of tourists, the opening ceremony and the events, how can the barges… travel on the river? The Seine is a crucial river for farmers in the region because it allows grains harvested in the Paris basin to be transported to major ports in the North, such as Rouen.
A working group has already been set up to identify the economic consequences of this traffic disruption. For barges, the interruption in passage, which was supposed to be ten days, will last six and a half days.