Weastflows - a European project serving Seine Gateway®

June 2013 NA 5594/JD/LA/MM/JFM

Focus on Action 1 led by AURH

The Weastflows project accompanies on-going dynamics in North-West Europe through use of lobbying as a springboard for multiplier effects in its areas and for concerned stakeholders. By identifying new railway, maritime or river routes for freight, Weastflows can create new development opportunities.

Several investments, projects or regional services already begun in the Seine Gateway® area, will thus be strengthened and returns will be maximised. It includes (a non-exhaustive list):

1/ the increase of the Le Havre port equipment capacity thanks to Port 2000 which will allow freight container traffic to double;

2/ improvement of navigation conditions to access ports along the Seine River (improving maritime access to the port of Rouen, modernisation of navigation locks, etc.);

3/ the Paris-Normandy New Railway Line Project (LNPN);

4/ the Le Havre port multimodal platform to increase flows and optimise railway and river links and traffic;

5/ the South Seine River multimodal platform project (municipality of Rouen);

6/ the Pîtres, Le Manoir/Alizay multimodal platform project;

7/ the port of Achères downstream from Paris and including a multimodal platform, the South Seine River and Seine Andelle platforms

upstream from Rouen, which will create added value along the entire Seine River;

8/ the direct railway link between Port 2000 and Le Havre – Paris line;

9/ modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line dedicated to freight transport as an alternative to the Le Havre-Rouen-Paris line;

10/ improving connectivity between Seine Estuary port terminal equipment in order to strengthen the positioning of the Normandy port complex as an international maritime platform;

11/ the Seine-Escault Canal;

12/ the development of short distance maritime links with the United Kingdom and Ireland (for example: the

Dieppe/Newhaven, Le Havre/Portsmouth, Rouen-Radicatel / Dublin lines) and railway lines to Germany;

13/ development of added value supply chain services with the VIALOG cluster in Dieppe.

AURH is one of the 22 partners involved in the Weastflows project which concerns seven countries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. More precisely, AURH is leading Action 1 (“Assessment of sustainable transport capacities”) in the 12 actions this project includes.

Work done by AURH in the framework of Action 1 will include four deliverables:1/ an atlas mapping freight transport infrastructures (validated by the European instances in March, 2013);2/ an analysis of the characteristics of the North-West European transport system;3/ an identification and an analysis of bottlenecks and blocking points impeding the development of sustainable freight transport;4/ a forward-looking analysis on territorial recommendations aiming to optimise the circulation of goods and facilitate modal shift.

The European Weastflows project, a contraction of the words “flow,” “west” and “east,” is an integral part in the framework of the INTERREG IVB programme for North-Western Europe. This four-year programme (2011 - 2014), was recognised by the European Commission as strategic initiative project.

Weastflows aims to create in Europe a new West-Eastern transport corridor including the Seine River Valley. With a strong environmental dimension, the goal of this project is also to promote modal shift from roadways towards more sustainable modes, thanks to the development of innovative technologies as well as the creation or optimisation of new transport infrastructures.

Weastflows is based on two facts. The first one concerns the progressive saturation of the historic North-South corridors stemming from the Northern Range ports, in spite of heavier and heavier investments to improve their fluidity. The second concerns the fact that one of the North-West Europe area is not linked to the main European freight corridors, in particular Normandy and its ports.On a local basis, stakes include linking Normandy and its

Le Havre and Rouen ports to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), enlarging their hinterlands towards the East and connecting the various gateways, identified in Weastflows, between themselves: Seine Gateway®, Thames Gateway (London, Kent, Essex), Liverpool Atlantic Gateway (Liverpool, Manchester), Duisburg Gateway and Luxembourg Gateway. More generally speaking, Weastflows will contribute to a new European geography

in which Normandy, Seine Gateway®, and ports on the Seine River Valley will become pivots, allowing them to capture and organise the flow of goods and freight.

By making Seine Gateway® a part of European networks, Weastflows facilitates its opening towards the World as well as its recognition as a powerful and necessary element in the European economy.

Weastflows continues work that

has already been undertaken, such as the “Western Link” project supported by the C8 (Conference of the 8 regions in the Paris basin) with the goal of progressively linking the Paris basin to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

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Weastflows: making Seine Gateway® one of the key access routes for freight transport in North-West Europe

An overhead view of Port 2000 (© Le Havre Port)

The Paris-Normandy New Line Project (© Réseau Ferré de France) Modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line (© Réseau Ferré de France)

Weastflows : a leverage effect on Seine River Valley projects

AURH - Urban Planning Agency of Le Havre and Seine Estuary area4 quai Guillaume Le Testu - 76063 Le Havre cedex - Tel: +33(0)235421788 - aurh@aurh.fr - www.aurh.frContact: Juliette Duszynski, Project leader in strategy, economic and port development, European projectsFor further information on Weastflows, please log onto our dedicated internet site: www.weastflows.com as well as AURH’s blog: www.aurhinweastflows.com

Geostrategic position of the Seine Gateway® at a European scale (source: AURH)

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AURH’s first formal deliverable in the framework of Weastflows and Action 1, the Atlas map presents the organisation of of the current and projected freight transport network in North-West Europe.This atlas was drawn up using the previously described data repository.

Two scales of analysis

It is composed of 32 maps covering North-West Europe and 16 maps at regional scales, corresponding to areas of interest to one or several Weastflows partners.

Multiple information

At the global North-West European scale, this atlas presents context maps with demographical and economic characteristics of the region, as well as maps showing details of transport infrastructures, especially maritime ones. Infrastructure projects are also identified as their European ranking (TEN-T network), which highlights on-going dynamics.

A dynamic and adaptable version of transport infrastructures can be accessed using the GeoWeastflows tool.

In a partnership with the Henri Tudor Public Research Centre (Luxembourg), a Weastflows partner, AURH has imagined and contributed to develope an interactive cartography tool, named “GeoWeastflows.”

Facilitating access to geographical information

The goal of this interactive tool is to make the Weastflows Geographical Information System accessible to the general public or those who do not have GIS software, as this will be available through simple use of an internet browser.

Communicating on project results

GeoWeastflows is an innovative communication tool with the long term goal of allowing transport and logistics stakeholders, both private and institutional, to make the best decisions for their local

and economic strategies.Limited at the beginning to the Weastflows partnership, it is at the disposal to the general public since November, 2013.

It will progressively integrate all project results. For further information or to follow changes in this tool, please log onto the dedicated

internet site: http://geo.weastflows.eu

AURH works carried out for Weastflows are based on setting up a Geographical Information System (GIS) that will cover all seven countries in North-West Europe. This approach aims :• to integrate and centralise

information concerning freight transport;

• to build a repository of geographical data which will allow detailed analyses to be performed;

• to create conditions allowing this data to be shared and become interoperable.

Developing complex GIS engineering

To build this GIS, AURH based its engineering on open

data from OpenStreetMap, a free geographical data base that works like a Wikipedia programme, dealing only with maps. This data was then integrated into the data model that AURH designed and built, in compliance with recommendations given by the INSPIRE European directive. Once integrated, this basic information was completed by business data.

A data repository with a European dimension

The data repository on freight transport infrastructures, supported by OpenStreetMap, supplies structured and detailed information for the North-West Europe area. It is composed of essential elements of the

infrastructure network such as roads, inland waterways, and railways and of key hubs such as ports, railway terminals, and intermodal platforms, as well as key infrastructure projects.

Towards deeper analyses

Based on this GIS, AURH has developed a geographical network analysis by building, as needed, more complex objects; for example: routes or clusters.

A shared knowledge base

Exploitable at a minute scale thanks to the precision found in OpenStreetMap, this structured geographical information system is now the basis for all shared work with a geographical approach on the Weastflows

project. Hence, the GIS is a strong factor of interaction between the project’s partners.

Local adaptation for Seine Gateway®

The GIS developed by AURH aims to be completed with results from other actions of the “geo-compatible” project and to be transmitted in a wide partnership which exceeds the framework of Weastflows, regarding the data confidentiality. A local adaptation of the GIS at the Seine Gateway® level, is being envisaged.

In the Weastflows framework, AURH pays special attention to propose a geostrategic vision for Seine Gateway® in order to:1/ increase knowledge of the HAROPA hinterlands (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris ports), by collecting, integrating and analysing GIS data;2/ pin-point, using forward-looking vision, evolutionary trends in freight transport linked with development projects, as well as changes in production and consumption basins;3/ facilitate connections and complementariness with other identified gateways, such as

Thames Gateway (London, Kent, Essex), Shannon - Limerick Gateway in Ireland, Liverpool Atlantic Gateway (Liverpool, Manchester) as well as Duisburg Gateway and Luxemburg Gateway.

Giving existence to Seine Gateway® in the North-West Europe

Positioning Seine Gateway® in the North-West Europe project using Weastflows, is a way to confront globalised stakes by identifying a development outlook which guarantees

positive economic fall out, in the Seine Gateway® area.

Stronger ties, enhanced cooperation

Weastflows is not merely an accumulation of data and knowledge. With its organisation between project partners and decision-makers, it gives the opportunity to build a strong network of public and private regional players who bring in expertise as well as an international strategic dimension, far exceeding the project’s perimeter. As part

of these European networks, AURH has stronger ties with economic and institutional stakeholders. In the heart of these networks, AURH thus has the opportunity to promote and value Seine Gateway® as a benchmark for private companies (industrial consignors of goods, investors, etc.) as well as institutional players, in particular, the European Commission.

1/ GIS engineering serving the project

2/ An interactive cartography tool GeoWeastflows

3/ An Atlas map on transport infrastructures

4/ A geostrategic vision for Seine Gateway®

AURH in Weastflows: the expertise of geographical information and benefits for Seine Gateway®

Screenshot of the GeoWeastflows tools (photo credits TUDOR/AURH)

Excerpt from the atlas of the main freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe (cartography: AURH)

ATLASMajor North-West Europeanfreight infrastructures

Weastflows project - Action 1 - Deliverable 1 - June 2013

Atlas of major North-West European freight infrastructures - June 2013

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Beauvais-Tille

Caen - Carpiquet

Caen

Lille

Dieppe

Le Havre

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Port du Havre

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Dourges Conteneurs Terminal Delta 3

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Network and intermodal platformSeine Gateway®

Data source powered by AURH & ©Voies Navigables de France, ©European Commission, DG Move, TEN-Tec Information System©OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbl, ©2012 National Geospatial Intelligence AgencyBoudaries ©MBR and EuroGeographics,©ESRI Map data ©OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbl®AURH -2013/02

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Navigability of inland waterways

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Railway network

Railway network

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MotorwayDual carriageway or freewaySingle carriageway

Base map

AreaOfInterest

Main urban area

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Seine Gateway®: Network and intermodal platform

Cover of the atlas of the main freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe

AURH’s first formal deliverable in the framework of Weastflows and Action 1, the Atlas map presents the organisation of of the current and projected freight transport network in North-West Europe.This atlas was drawn up using the previously described data repository.

Two scales of analysis

It is composed of 32 maps covering North-West Europe and 16 maps at regional scales, corresponding to areas of interest to one or several Weastflows partners.

Multiple information

At the global North-West European scale, this atlas presents context maps with demographical and economic characteristics of the region, as well as maps showing details of transport infrastructures, especially maritime ones. Infrastructure projects are also identified as their European ranking (TEN-T network), which highlights on-going dynamics.

A dynamic and adaptable version of transport infrastructures can be accessed using the GeoWeastflows tool.

In a partnership with the Henri Tudor Public Research Centre (Luxembourg), a Weastflows partner, AURH has imagined and contributed to develope an interactive cartography tool, named “GeoWeastflows.”

Facilitating access to geographical information

The goal of this interactive tool is to make the Weastflows Geographical Information System accessible to the general public or those who do not have GIS software, as this will be available through simple use of an internet browser.

Communicating on project results

GeoWeastflows is an innovative communication tool with the long term goal of allowing transport and logistics stakeholders, both private and institutional, to make the best decisions for their local

and economic strategies.Limited at the beginning to the Weastflows partnership, it is at the disposal to the general public since November, 2013.

It will progressively integrate all project results. For further information or to follow changes in this tool, please log onto the dedicated

internet site: http://geo.weastflows.eu

AURH works carried out for Weastflows are based on setting up a Geographical Information System (GIS) that will cover all seven countries in North-West Europe. This approach aims :• to integrate and centralise

information concerning freight transport;

• to build a repository of geographical data which will allow detailed analyses to be performed;

• to create conditions allowing this data to be shared and become interoperable.

Developing complex GIS engineering

To build this GIS, AURH based its engineering on open

data from OpenStreetMap, a free geographical data base that works like a Wikipedia programme, dealing only with maps. This data was then integrated into the data model that AURH designed and built, in compliance with recommendations given by the INSPIRE European directive. Once integrated, this basic information was completed by business data.

A data repository with a European dimension

The data repository on freight transport infrastructures, supported by OpenStreetMap, supplies structured and detailed information for the North-West Europe area. It is composed of essential elements of the

infrastructure network such as roads, inland waterways, and railways and of key hubs such as ports, railway terminals, and intermodal platforms, as well as key infrastructure projects.

Towards deeper analyses

Based on this GIS, AURH has developed a geographical network analysis by building, as needed, more complex objects; for example: routes or clusters.

A shared knowledge base

Exploitable at a minute scale thanks to the precision found in OpenStreetMap, this structured geographical information system is now the basis for all shared work with a geographical approach on the Weastflows

project. Hence, the GIS is a strong factor of interaction between the project’s partners.

Local adaptation for Seine Gateway®

The GIS developed by AURH aims to be completed with results from other actions of the “geo-compatible” project and to be transmitted in a wide partnership which exceeds the framework of Weastflows, regarding the data confidentiality. A local adaptation of the GIS at the Seine Gateway® level, is being envisaged.

In the Weastflows framework, AURH pays special attention to propose a geostrategic vision for Seine Gateway® in order to:1/ increase knowledge of the HAROPA hinterlands (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris ports), by collecting, integrating and analysing GIS data;2/ pin-point, using forward-looking vision, evolutionary trends in freight transport linked with development projects, as well as changes in production and consumption basins;3/ facilitate connections and complementariness with other identified gateways, such as

Thames Gateway (London, Kent, Essex), Shannon - Limerick Gateway in Ireland, Liverpool Atlantic Gateway (Liverpool, Manchester) as well as Duisburg Gateway and Luxemburg Gateway.

Giving existence to Seine Gateway® in the North-West Europe

Positioning Seine Gateway® in the North-West Europe project using Weastflows, is a way to confront globalised stakes by identifying a development outlook which guarantees

positive economic fall out, in the Seine Gateway® area.

Stronger ties, enhanced cooperation

Weastflows is not merely an accumulation of data and knowledge. With its organisation between project partners and decision-makers, it gives the opportunity to build a strong network of public and private regional players who bring in expertise as well as an international strategic dimension, far exceeding the project’s perimeter. As part

of these European networks, AURH has stronger ties with economic and institutional stakeholders. In the heart of these networks, AURH thus has the opportunity to promote and value Seine Gateway® as a benchmark for private companies (industrial consignors of goods, investors, etc.) as well as institutional players, in particular, the European Commission.

1/ GIS engineering serving the project

2/ An interactive cartography tool GeoWeastflows

3/ An Atlas map on transport infrastructures

4/ A geostrategic vision for Seine Gateway®

AURH in Weastflows: the expertise of geographical information and benefits for Seine Gateway®

Screenshot of the GeoWeastflows tools (photo credits TUDOR/AURH)

Excerpt from the atlas of the main freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe (cartography: AURH)

ATLASMajor North-West Europeanfreight infrastructures

Weastflows project - Action 1 - Deliverable 1 - June 2013

Atlas of major North-West European freight infrastructures - June 2013

Legend

49

Beauvais-Tille

Caen - Carpiquet

Caen

Lille

Dieppe

Le Havre

Saint-Malo

Cherbourg-Octeville

Gron

Fecamp

Harnes

Dieppe

Granville

Cherbourg

Le Treport

Saint-Malo

Caen Ouistreham

Nogent-sur-Seine

Paris - Orly

Lille - Lesquin

Paris - Charles de GaulleParis

Rouen

Port de Lille

Port du Havre

Béthune-Beuvry

Dourges Conteneurs Terminal Delta 3

$0 10 205Km

Network and intermodal platformSeine Gateway®

Data source powered by AURH & ©Voies Navigables de France, ©European Commission, DG Move, TEN-Tec Information System©OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbl, ©2012 National Geospatial Intelligence AgencyBoudaries ©MBR and EuroGeographics,©ESRI Map data ©OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbl®AURH -2013/02

Transport Node

#* Inland water

!( Seaport

"") RailwayNode

o AerodromeNode

TEN-T CORE infrastructureTransport network

Navigability of inland waterways

CEMT Class over VCEMT Class III - Class IV CEMT Class I - Class II

Frequency of ferry lines(crossing by week)

1 - 34 - 78 - 2122 - 5657 - 385

Railway network

Railway network

Road network

MotorwayDual carriageway or freewaySingle carriageway

Base map

AreaOfInterest

Main urban area

City

" Capitale

! Main city

Seine Gateway®: Network and intermodal platform

Cover of the atlas of the main freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe

Weastflows - a European project serving Seine Gateway®

June 2013 NA 5594/JD/LA/MM/JFM

Focus on Action 1 led by AURH

The Weastflows project accompanies on-going dynamics in North-West Europe through use of lobbying as a springboard for multiplier effects in its areas and for concerned stakeholders. By identifying new railway, maritime or river routes for freight, Weastflows can create new development opportunities.

Several investments, projects or regional services already begun in the Seine Gateway® area, will thus be strengthened and returns will be maximised. It includes (a non-exhaustive list):

1/ the increase of the Le Havre port equipment capacity thanks to Port 2000 which will allow freight container traffic to double;

2/ improvement of navigation conditions to access ports along the Seine River (improving maritime access to the port of Rouen, modernisation of navigation locks, etc.);

3/ the Paris-Normandy New Railway Line Project (LNPN);

4/ the Le Havre port multimodal platform to increase flows and optimise railway and river links and traffic;

5/ the South Seine River multimodal platform project (municipality of Rouen);

6/ the Pîtres, Le Manoir/Alizay multimodal platform project;

7/ the port of Achères downstream from Paris and including a multimodal platform, the South Seine River and Seine Andelle platforms

upstream from Rouen, which will create added value along the entire Seine River;

8/ the direct railway link between Port 2000 and Le Havre – Paris line;

9/ modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line dedicated to freight transport as an alternative to the Le Havre-Rouen-Paris line;

10/ improving connectivity between Seine Estuary port terminal equipment in order to strengthen the positioning of the Normandy port complex as an international maritime platform;

11/ the Seine-Escault Canal;

12/ the development of short distance maritime links with the United Kingdom and Ireland (for example: the

Dieppe/Newhaven, Le Havre/Portsmouth, Rouen-Radicatel / Dublin lines) and railway lines to Germany;

13/ development of added value supply chain services with the VIALOG cluster in Dieppe.

AURH is one of the 22 partners involved in the Weastflows project which concerns seven countries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. More precisely, AURH is leading Action 1 (“Assessment of sustainable transport capacities”) in the 12 actions this project includes.

Work done by AURH in the framework of Action 1 will include four deliverables:1/ an atlas mapping freight transport infrastructures (validated by the European instances in March, 2013);2/ an analysis of the characteristics of the North-West European transport system;3/ an identification and an analysis of bottlenecks and blocking points impeding the development of sustainable freight transport;4/ a forward-looking analysis on territorial recommendations aiming to optimise the circulation of goods and facilitate modal shift.

The European Weastflows project, a contraction of the words “flow,” “west” and “east,” is an integral part in the framework of the INTERREG IVB programme for North-Western Europe. This four-year programme (2011 - 2014), was recognised by the European Commission as strategic initiative project.

Weastflows aims to create in Europe a new West-Eastern transport corridor including the Seine River Valley. With a strong environmental dimension, the goal of this project is also to promote modal shift from roadways towards more sustainable modes, thanks to the development of innovative technologies as well as the creation or optimisation of new transport infrastructures.

Weastflows is based on two facts. The first one concerns the progressive saturation of the historic North-South corridors stemming from the Northern Range ports, in spite of heavier and heavier investments to improve their fluidity. The second concerns the fact that one of the North-West Europe area is not linked to the main European freight corridors, in particular Normandy and its ports.On a local basis, stakes include linking Normandy and its

Le Havre and Rouen ports to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), enlarging their hinterlands towards the East and connecting the various gateways, identified in Weastflows, between themselves: Seine Gateway®, Thames Gateway (London, Kent, Essex), Liverpool Atlantic Gateway (Liverpool, Manchester), Duisburg Gateway and Luxembourg Gateway. More generally speaking, Weastflows will contribute to a new European geography

in which Normandy, Seine Gateway®, and ports on the Seine River Valley will become pivots, allowing them to capture and organise the flow of goods and freight.

By making Seine Gateway® a part of European networks, Weastflows facilitates its opening towards the World as well as its recognition as a powerful and necessary element in the European economy.

Weastflows continues work that

has already been undertaken, such as the “Western Link” project supported by the C8 (Conference of the 8 regions in the Paris basin) with the goal of progressively linking the Paris basin to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

Bern

Wien

Praha

Paris

Berlin

Dublin

Zagreb

London

Sarajevo

Warszawa

Budapest

Kobenhavn

Amsterdam

Ljubljana

Luxembourg

Bratislava

Bruxelles

Lyon

Leeds

Krakow

Torino

Milano

München

WroclawLeipzig

Belfast

Hamburg

Bordeaux

Nürnberg

Duisburg

Hannover

Stuttgart

Frankfurt

Liverpool

Düsseldorf

Manchester

Strasbourg

Birmingham

Rotterdam

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Linz

Cork

Gent

Metz

Kiel

Malmö

Liége

Parma

Halle

DijonBasel

Nancy

Lille

Brest

Reims

Tours

Gdansk

Poznan

Lübeck

Aarhus

Bremen

Erfurt

Kassel

Rennes

Dundee

Venezia

Bologna

Brescia

Ostrava

Dresden

Aalborg

Le Mans

Cardiff

Norwich

Glasgow

Bristol

Klaipeda

Göteborg

Katowice

Salzburg

Enschede

Augsburg

Mannheim

Mulhouse

Le Havre

Plymouth

Innsbruck

BremerhavenGroningen

Magdeburg

Edinburgh

Charleroi

Regensburg

Portsmouth

Székesfehérvér

Clermont-Ferrand

Kingston upon Hull

Newcastle upon Tyne

Freiburg im Breisgau

Rouen

Nantes

BrnoPlzen Zilina

Genova

Galway

Amiens

Rostock

Limoges

Esbjerg

Nyköping

Piacenza

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NorthSea

English Channel

Adriaticsea

Détroit du Pas-de-Calais

Baltic sea

Atlantic ocean

North-west Europe area (Weastflows studied area)

West-east transport corridorto be developed

Opening strategy of North RangePorts toward the east of Europe

Shift of Europe gravity center towards the east

«Blue Banana», historic economicheart of Europe«Orange Pumpkin», intense area ofeconomic development

Historic transportation corridorsbecoming saturated

Strait of Nord-pas-de-Calais,area of intense maritime traffic

Seine Gateway® wide area

Maritime entrance andexitway of goods

Seine Gateway®

Légende :

Connexion point betweencorridors

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(R)AURH (LA - 06/2013)(c)ESRI 2005

Geostrategic position of Seine Gateway® at a European level

An overhead view of the Le Havre multiple mode platform construction site (© Le Havre Port)

Weastflows: making Seine Gateway® one of the key access routes for freight transport in North-West Europe

An overhead view of Port 2000 (© Le Havre Port)

The Paris-Normandy New Line Project (© Réseau Ferré de France) Modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line (© Réseau Ferré de France)

Weastflows : a leverage effect on Seine River Valley projects

AURH - Urban Planning Agency of Le Havre and Seine Estuary area4 quai Guillaume Le Testu - 76063 Le Havre cedex - Tel: +33(0)235421788 - aurh@aurh.fr - www.aurh.frContact: Juliette Duszynski, Project leader in strategy, economic and port development, European projectsFor further information on Weastflows, please log onto our dedicated internet site: www.weastflows.com as well as AURH’s blog: www.aurhinweastflows.com

Geostrategic position of the Seine Gateway® at a European scale (source: AURH)

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