The Port of Gennevilliers in figures

• 401 hectares: 272ha for companies, 51ha water, 78ha of public areas and facilities, 510,000 m² of buildings (warehouses, industrial premises, offices and other) of which one-third owned by the PAP
• 5 modes of transport and a combined transport centre
• Over 20 million tonnes of traffic, all modes included
• 275 main companies
• Over 8,000 direct jobs
• Activities
  • Building and public works
  • Metal industry
  • Agrifood
  • Environment and products for recovery
  • Energy products
  • Automobiles
  • Logistics and containers

Site assets

In addition to the services linked to its activity, the Port of Gennevilliers proposes additional services for businesses:

• customs, post, police, guarding
• handling,
• rental of vehicles, public works and other machinery, coaches,
• HGV service station,
• public quays

Since 2005, there has been a business incubator focusing on the sectors of transport, logistics, international trade and e-commerce.

A large number of personal services are also available:

• hotels
• restaurants: gastronomic, self service, bistrot, sandwich bar, café
• seminar and conference rooms
• tobacconist, newsagent
• "port bus", RATP shuttles providing doorstep services between businesses on the site and the public transport network at peak and off-peak times and on request
• two training centres, including the AFT-IFTIM (forklift and crane operators, HGV and public transport drivers)

A dynamic environment

The Port of Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) is the largest port platform in Ile-de-France in terms of surface area and activity. It covers all the modes of transport: waterway, river-sea, rail, oil pipeline and road. More than 270 businesses in a wide variety of activities have already chosen the site for its exceptional location and communications on the doorstep of Paris. The largest container centre in the region (operated by Paris Terminal) is in the process of doubling its working surface area: it currently handles over 290,000 TE (more than 100,000 by waterway), and this capacity will soon reach 450,000 TE.

Thanks to the various waterway transport operators, Gennevilliers enjoys optimal scheduled container services by river between Paris and Le Havre. Rail services and connections are also provided to the east and south of France.

5 modes of transport

All the different modes of transport converge at the Gennevilliers multimodal platform.

• Waterway: by self-propelled or towed barges, in convoys of up to 5,000 tonnes downstream on the Seine, and 3,000 tonnes upstream and on the Oise, this mode is mainly used for bulk goods, cereals, and also containers (76,874 TE in 2008). The Port of Le Havre is 30 hours from the Port of Gennevilliers, while Rouen is 20 hours away. In 2008, 3,374,106 tonnes passed through the port by this transport mode, a figure that has been growing constantly since 2002 (+38% in five years).
• Maritime: by vessels of 2,500 tonnes DW maximum. In 2008, total traffic was about 41,000 tonnes.
• Rail: on the Paris-North network by full train (cereals, cement, automobiles, etc...) or smaller consignments. In 2008, traffic represented 1,150,000 tonnes (of which 326,565 tonnes by operators other than the SNCF).
• Oil pipeline: the Port of Gennevilliers is the arrival point of the Lower Seine oil pipelines, and a connection point with the orbital networks around Paris. In 2008, some 3,400,000 tonnes of hydrocarbons were transported to the Port of Gennevilliers by pipeline, of which 1,815,000 tonnes delivered to the Paris region from the oil depots in the port (15% of total consumption in  Ile-de-France). Network operated by the company TRAPIL. Depots: Total France, SOGEPP.
• Road: a major motorway junction links the port directly to the A86 motorway running alongside the port site, to the A15 that runs through it and also to the A1, A14 and A13.
• A combined transport centre: on over 14 hectares, Paris Terminal S.A. operates a trimodal container centre. In 2008, it handled 269,130 container movements (TE), against 268.098 in 2007. The extension and rationalisation of the terminal are currently underway to multiply its handling capacity by two. At the same time, waterway container traffic through the terminal operated by the REP reached 14,195 TE, of which 9,368 TE of waste in 2008.

Site projects and developments

• The rehabilitation of the Petits Marais area, funded by the ERDF, some of which is already completed:
  • part of the arboretum,
  • a first part of the road network,
  • construction of a 150-metre boom for waste transport by waterway,
• The warehouse sprinkler installation programme was commissioned in 2005.
• The Quai des Entrepreneurs business incubator started its activity in May 2005.
• A cycle track has been constructed.
• The modernisation and extension of the remote supervision and access control systems.
• The extension of the container terminal with 400 linear metres of quays built (2008-2010).
• The creation of an HGV service centre.
• 8,000 direct jobs in 2005 and 10,000 indirect jobs (estimates).
• 15,000 estimated by 2015.