Agroindustry

HAROPA PORT is an agroindustrial hub based in the heart of France’s agricultural production regions. The market offering of Rouen, Europe’s leading port for grain exports, is unequalled, which makes HAROPA PORT your expert partner for the storage, preparation, loading and shipment of produce in compliance with buyers’ mandatory requirements.

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Leadership for grain

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HAROPA PORT is located at the heart of the biggest French wheat and barley production area, offering a range of local production areas and yields that are among the world’s best. Rouen is the European leader for grain exports:

  • 50% of all French maritime exports of wheat and barley,
  • 15% of European grain exports.

A major exporter

  • 7.5 Mt on average and up to 10 million tonnes of grain (wheat, barley, etc.) exported every year.
  • Exports outside the European Union: 91% (mainly to the Maghreb).
  • Regular supplies to port silos in quantities and quality grades to satisfy buyers’ mandatory requirements.

Storage and loading capacities unparalleled in Europe

 

  • Transportation of grain by rail, river and road,
  • Rouen’s storage capacity for agricultural products: 1.3Mt (including 900,000 tonnes dedicated to grain exports),
  • Numerous loading sites on the river upstream of Rouen’s silos,
  • Europe’s most efficient silos: individual silo loading rates up to 3,000 tonnes per hour (capacity in excess of 100,000 tonnes/day for the port as a whole).
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  • Expertise clusters: port silos, inspectors, laboratories, government services, stevedores, freight forwarders, shipping agents, hauliers, and more.
  • Load preparation, segmentation, batch allocation of grain to guarantee the desired quality for buyers.
  • A global benchmark for market quotations on the Euronext futures market for milling wheat.
HAROPA PORT grain export silos
  • Groupe BZ (Rouen)
  • Sénalia (Rouen + Bonnières sur Seine)
  • Sévépi - UCAYC (Limay)
  • Simarex (Rouen)
  • Socomac - Soufflet (Rouen)

A hub open to the world

HAROPA PORT is the main French agroindustry hub and one of the major actors in Europe. The various terminals and the expertise of the industrial and logistics operators based at HAROPA’s ports can offer shippers a wide variety of high-quality services dedicated to the agroindustrial sector along with space for setting up new operations.

A multiproduct service offering

More than 2Mt of agroindustrial products go through HAROPA PORT terminals every year: malt, sugar, flour, cocoa, coffee, semolina, rapeseed cake, spent wheat grain, starch, gluten, biodiesel, ethanol, edible oils, etc. pass through Seine Axis facilities after production. This diverse offering is supplemented by around 2Mt of fertiliser every year for which HAROPA PORT is France’s principal transit point.

HAROPA PORT has a range of general-purpose and dedicated terminals equipped to handle agroindustrial products at specified quality levels. Some examples:

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Sugar: two dedicated terminals.

  • Robust (Rouen): capacity 60,000t; containers loading.

     

  • Sucreocéane (Le Havre): capacity 60,000t; container loading.

Malt: Rouen has a malthouse dedicated to exports (Soufflet Group).
France is the leading global exporter of malt and HAROPA PORT is the main partner port for the French malt export sector, offering export capacity for bulk or container shipments.

Cocoa: the two biggest international players in the cocoa market are present (Cargill and Barry Callebaut). HAROPA PORT is France’s main entry point for cocoa beans, and it has the capacity for cargo reception on bulk carriers or in containers via Le Havre and Rouen.

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HAROPA PORT has terminals capable of handling numerous other agroindustrial products such as flour, semolina, soybean and rapeseed cake, beet pulp, fruit and vegetables, and more. 

This is a complete sector able to serve all shippers’ needs.

The network of logistics service providers based at HAROPA PORT’s terminals provides unparalleled expertise for stevedoring, storage, agroindustrial product preparation and shipment as solid bulk or in reefers, in accordance specified quality levels.

Effective product quantity and quality controls are guaranteed by the presence of the main inspection organisations (e.g.  Control Union, Intertek, SGS) and internationally renowned laboratories.

They create value-added with HAROPA PORT

The highest-profile names in agroindustry have based industrial operations directly at or in the immediate vicinity of HAROPA PORT’s terminals: Soufflet, Panzani, Nutrixo, Lustucru, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Saipol, Tereos, Saint Louis Sucre, Ferrero, Segafredo, and others.
The advantages:

  • proximity of storage and loading/unloading facilities,
  • competitive associated services and logistics solutions with connections to the whole world

Want to join them?

HAROPA PORT ports can provide a wide range of options for setting up new operations. The diversity of the real estate available from Paris to Le Havre, Rouen included, means that customised propositions are possible for all types of projects.

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