HAROPA, the joint venture between the ‘grand port maritime du Havre’, the ‘grand port maritime de Rouen’ and the ‘port autonome de Paris’ was created in 2012 with the purpose of building up a European-sized port system in the field of industry, logistics and tourism dedicated to its customers. Actually being the largest French port system with 91.4 Mt of sea traffic and more than 20 million tons of river traffic in 2015, HAROPA ranks 5th within the northern range after Rotterdam (466 Mt), Antwerp (206 Mt), Hamburg (138 Mt) and Amsterdam (97 Mt). In this very competitive market, the ports of the Seine corridor had to distinguish themselves..more