Campaigning in Le Havre on April 14, 2022, President-Candidate Emmanuel Macron stressed the importance of developing rail and river freight and the desire to make Haropa Port the gateway to Eastern Europe. An article from the Journal de l’Axe Seine.
During his day of visit to Le Havre, the subject of ecology on the program, Emmanuel Macron went to the quays of Port 2000, to the Terminal de France where a CMA CGM container ship was moored. There, he spoke with a delegation from the CGT dockers’ union and then with Le Havre actors from the port area and witnessed, at the top of a gantry, container loading operations.
Edouard Philippe, mayor of Le Havre, and Emmanuel Macron in Le Havre on April 14, 2022. © Ville du Havre
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It is necessary, he underlined, “to make Le Havre the gateway to the east of France but also to the productive regions of Switzerland, Germany, as far as Eastern Europe and , to be competitive, develop rail and river freight. This is the meaning of Haropa port which, the culmination of a long process, is one of the consolidations of this five-year term since the large port of Paris in Le Havre was born in June 2021. The president-candidate mentioned “the recent investments decided in recent years and [ceux] to come, with these immense works to continue to electrify our ports and develop hydrogen”. It is a question, he insisted, “to be at the heart of competitiveness, to make investments towards rail and river, as I presented with the maritime strategy for Marseille en Grand”.
“Finding the levels of Antwerp”
Because “there are a lot of things to do to develop our ports, assured Emmanuel Macron. I strongly believe in this maritime strategy linked to our ability to have this share in international trade, which allows us to consolidate our industrial influence”. Which also supposes, he specified, to “reorganize in our country our rail freight which was a French failure twenty years ago and which must be developed if we want to be competitive, gain volumes and be consistent with our green strategy. However, in Le Havre, “for this port which is already one of the major European ports, our challenge is to succeed in regaining the levels of Antwerp and other ports. It has the capacity if we invest. »
An article from Journal of the Ax Seine
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