traffics : Review of 1st half-year to 2023: recovery underway!

In a general context of decline of french and european ports, HAROPA PORT recorded a drop in maritime traffic in the first half-year but maintained its market share on the northern range. Traffic is gradually picking up, driven by an exceptional cereal campaign, a growing passenger traffic and major investment projects on the Seine axis.

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Encouraging results

  • maritime: 38.59 million tons at - 8.3% compared with 2022,
  • liquid bulk: 4.6 million tons, whith a refined products traffic up of +5.5%,
  • Containers: 1.25 TEU at -16.7% in tonnage,
    HAROPA PORT succeeded in maintaining its market share in a 12% decline in container traffic on the Northern Range. Good performance in river container traffic of 12,834 TEU (+ 19%) handled by Paris Terminal SA in Gennevilliers.
  • Solid bulk: + 0.3% marked by positive momentum in the cereals sector (+ 12.9%), with a successful 2022-2023 cereal campaign,
  • Aggregates: traffic for the construction market is up of +104 kt by end 2023 (+11.5%),
  • Ferry :
    • freight vehicles: -45%
    • passenger traffic: +125%,
  • Cruise : +3.9% growth compared with 2022, with 79 calls and almost 183,000 passengers (+87%).
  • Ro-ro: stable, with 130,000 vehicles handled.
     

Despite an 8.3% year-on-year drop in overall sea freight traffic to the end of June 2023, HAROPA PORT succeeded in maintaining its market share over the first half of the year, a great performance in a European context of more than 12% decline in container traffic. Other  traffic (solid bulk, passengers, etc.) continue to grow, demonstrating the port's resilience and positive dynamic.

HAROPA PORT stays on course facing national crises


HAROPA PORT has managed to hold its own in a difficult environment characterized by a general decline in maritime container traffic, affected by a difficult social context. 
This situation did not hinder the gradual recovery in traffic for the port, thanks to positive factors contributing to its growth, as an exceptional 2022-2023 cereal campaign.

Rouen recorded the 3ᵉ best maritime export performance since the 90s, with 8.5 million tons of cereal exported. HAROPA PORT totaled 52% of French maritime cereal exports for this period, reinforcing the port’s position as a major hub in the cereal sector. 

HAROPA PORT, a logistics and industrial hub


HAROPA PORT maintains its position as a logistics and industrial hub, andis  strengthening its attractiveness thanks to major investments on the Seine axis, such as:

  • MSC-TiL's investment in Port 2000 (900 million euros),
  • the development of a reference platform for new alternative fuel industries on the Grand Canal site (over one billion euros invested by ENGIE in partnership with Air France & CMA CGM),
  • the end of the construction of berths 11 and 12 at Port 2000 (152 million euros invested by HAROPA PORT).