HAROPA elected “Best Green Port” for the 3rd time in row

February 14, 2018
10:50 am

HAROPA has been invited by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) to share its experience on sustainable environment during the 10th Biennal International Conference on Ports, shipping & Logistics. This conference, held in Mumbai on February 16th, 2018, is expected to attract senior professionals from shipping, ports and logistics, also a large customer segment and stakeholders.
This participation is linked to the award for the “Best Green Port” which HAROPA received last June for the third time. Indeed, the port stakeholders and experts in the supply chain of the Asia Pacific zone have placed their trust again in HAROPA (the 5th port complex on the North-European range composed of Port of Le Havre, Port of Rouen and Ports of Paris).

In competition with world ports among which Barcelona, Hamburg and Rotterdam, Long Beach and Singapore, HAROPA has been elected both “Best Green Port” and “Best Seaport in Europe” by the readers of Asia Cargo News magazine, leader of this specialized press in Asia. The prizes attributed after a vote of more than 18,000 port professionals and experts of the supply chain confirm the attractiveness and competiveness of HAROPA ports, in particular regarding the Asian market and its environmental commitment.

For Hervé Martel, Vice-President of HAROPA and CEO of HAROPA – Port of Le
Havre, “The ‘Best Green Port’ awarded for the third year running, is an enormous
sign of recognition in efforts made by the three port communities and their
partners. It confirms the common interest of everyone for respectful development
of our areas and the attention paid to our ports and our oceans. The other prize
‘Best Seaport in Europe’ repeated award is also an enormous sign of confidence
in HAROPA and in all efforts made by the three ports and their partners. That
confirms that the New Silk Road is now more than ever going through HAROPA.”

Hervé CORNEDE, Commercial and Marketing Director of HAROPA, receiving the two trophies on June 29th, in Singapore.

THE TROPHY “BEST GREEN PORT”

Through the “Best Green Port“, importers-exporters, logisticians, freight forwarders and other Asian shipping companies greet the quality of the environmental initiatives boosted by HAROPA. This commitment turns around two essential axes: developing consolidated modes and multimodality, on the one hand, and encouraging effective initiatives in terms of fight against global warming, on the other hand.

HAROPA – PORT OF LE HAVRE AND HAROPA – PORT OF ROUEN: A SHARED APPROACH ON THE SEINE ESTUARY

The Seine estuary lies largely within the maritime boundaries of the ports of Rouen and Le Havre. Faced with their need for coherent, comprehensive management of the estuary, the two ports have implemented a shared approach to sustainable development which focuses on three common themes:
– Forward-looking management of wilderness areas and natural resources
– Control of the impact of port activities on the environment
– Support for projects by integrating environmental issues and consultation from the design stage onwards

HAROPA – PORTS OF PARIS: AN ECO-CAMPAIGNER IN THE CITY
Promoting inland waterway transport is the major focus for the environmental commitment of Ports of Paris. Its Environmental Strategic Plan includes 253 actions divided into four priority areas: Integration of the ports in their natural habitat, control of their environmental impacts, the quality management system and the ISO 14 001 certification.

The Seine and its estuary form a corridor for trade, tourism, industry and culture vital for the French economy. The river provides a transport network for the Paris region, the natural hinterland HAROPA, and is a vital corridor for European ecosystems, wetlands in particular.

Environment is an issue concerning all levels of our action;
the challenge is to transform a constraint into a competitive edge

Since port reform (law 2008-660, July 4th 2008): ports are in charge of management and preservation of natural areas on their territory

Regulatory framework: legislation on air, plan for risk prevention, city master plan
Maintain fluidity and access within the port
Build new infrastructures considering climate change
Reduce our operational costs using ‘green’ energy…
Develop our commercial offers: multimodal offer, assist and advice our customers, BREEAM warehouses
Try to be more efficient than our competitors in reducing time to settle up a warehouse
Enhance our image and our reputation: HAROPA is a smart port.

THE PROOF BY THE EXAMPLE…

HAROPA, PROMOTER OF VIRTUOUS LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS

Developing the modal shift
HAROPA – Port of Le Havre: the multimodal platform -> € 140 million in investments. Commissioned in June 2015, this unique infrastructure in France will help improve the market share of rail and inland waterways, which currently represent 15% of HAROPA container traffic. Equipped with railway sidings, a rail yard and a river yard directly related to shipping terminals by a system of scheduled rail shuttles, the multimodal terminal allows the mass transport of containers and swap bodies to serve a vast hinterland, while reducing the environmental impact of our activities.
HAROPA – Port of Rouen: improved access for shipping. The objective: to provide 1 meter of additional draught (11.30 m at low tide and 11.70 m and at high tide) by dredging the 120 km channel separating Honfleur from Rouen. The engineering phase for this project (representing an investment of € 175 million) began in 2012. Deepening the channel is designed to reduce CO2 emissions (estimated at 30,000 tonnes less per year; estimated environmental gain of € 13.7 million / year and 6.6 million litres of fuel / year), decrease the congestion of access roads to the port and facilitate the modal shift to the river.

HAROPA – Ports of Paris: Urban logistics solutions: the example of Franprix : since 2015, the Franprix group has served its 80 stores in central Paris via the Seine. An innovation in terms of urban logistics made possible by the cooperation of HAROPA – Ports of Paris, VNF and XPO logistics transport group.

Encouraging the stakeholders involved in maritime and river transport
HAROPA – Port of Le Havre: a discount on the State fee to operators that encourage the modal shift to rail or river transport. The incentive can reach 30% of the total amount of the fee. Two terminal operators have already joined the scheme.
HAROPA – Ports of Paris: companies deferring all or part of their logistics to an alternative mode of transport benefit from financial assistance (proportional to the tonnage for bulk, or proportional to the number of TEUs for containers). Support is given in the form of a discount on the rent for land or buildings leased by these companies. As a result, over € 9 million were “redistributed” in this way in 2013.

The SAFE SECA project: solutions that respect the environment in the Seine Bay
Early in 2014, the ports of HAROPA, together with PNA (Ouistreham-Cherbourg), the joint authority for the port of Dieppe and the General Council of Seine-Maritime (the Ports of Fécamp and Le Tréport) initiated the process called SAFE SECA (Study for Alternative Fuels and Experiment in the Seine and Channel Area) – a project supported by the European Union through a grant under the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

ON-GOING EFFORTS TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF OUR ACTIVITIES

A voluntary certification policy
HAROPA – Ports of Paris has been ISO 14001-certified since 2013: this international recognition illustrates the implementation of an organization designed to ensure the continuous improvement of the environmental performance of the ports of Paris.
HAROPA – Port of Le Havre has been PERS-certified since 2015: issued by the EcoPorts foundation, the PERS (Port Environmental Review System) is an environmental standard developed by the independent auditor, Lloyd’s Register. Established and based on extremely strict methodology, this recognition is valid for two years and helps ports ensure continuous improvement in their environmental performance.
HAROPA – Port of Rouen in its ISO 14001 certification initiative in 2017 for 4 major sites.

A special reception area for innovative industries
The offshore wind program in Le Havre consists of two components: Adwen will build two wind turbine plants manufacturing on the Joannes Couvert dock, in order to supply wind farm project in Le Tréport, Saint-Brieuc and Noirmoutier; EOHF, will install on the Bougainville quay a manufacturing site for the gravity base foundations of the wind turbines in the Fécamp farm.
Upgrading of by-products in Le Havre
HAROPA – Port of Le Havre accompanies regional stakeholders backing innovative projects and promoting synergies between companies. Two examples of industrial ecology activities: ESTENER (manufactures biodiesel from complex fats : a first in France), OSILUB (a regeneration plant for waste oils : a partnership between Veolia Environmental Services and Total Lubricants).
Production of biofuels in Rouen
SAIPOL (extraction of rape seeds – 1 million tonnes per year – to produce biofuels) , TEREOS (use of wheat to produce bioethanol)
CO2 capture and storage: the example of SEDIBEX: located in Le Havre since 1977, SEDIBEX is one of the largest industrial waste incineration and reprocessing plants in Europe. With an annual capacity of 165,000 tonnes, SEDIBEX is a prime example of energy recovery, resulting in the recovery of 300,000 tonnes of steam per year and 9.5 million kWh of electricity.
PRESERVING WILDERNESS AREAS AND ENHANCING URBAN AREAS

An approach based on constant dialogue

Port 2000 in Le Havre, was the first public consultation process to be carried out in France, from 1997 onwards
Rouen: consultation was introduced in 2014 as part of the search for a new disposal site for dredging sediment
the Machu site was chosen by consensus
Ports of Paris: a consultative process is initiated for any important project (e.g. the Seine Metropolis West Port)
Improvement of the river access to Port 2000 in Le Havre: consultation during the winter 2017/2018 with the public, associations and professionals.