The shipping platform

Location: Rouen is a sea port located on the River Seine, approx 60nm from the sea in northern France. General overview: Rouen is the main access to the upper ports close to Paris and can offer its customers a wide choice of facilities along the length of the Seine Valley, where small river coasters can be loaded. Approx 120km separate Rouen from Paris. Rouen has a hinterland of 22,000,000 consumers within a radius of 200km. Rouen is a leading European port and has over 12,600m of quayage plus many berths on dolphins which can accommodate a large variety of vessels. The main specialties of the port of Rouen are cereals, fertilizers, refined petroleum products, forestry and paper products, heavy parcels and containers. The main cruise terminal at the Port of Rouen offers quays of 300 meters with alongside depth of 8.5 meters. A second terminal at the foot of the William the Conqueror Bridge has a quay of 250 meters with alongside depth of 8 meters. The third terminal at Honfleur can accommodate ships of 200 meters long with alongside depth of nine meters. In addition to passengers, the Honfleur Terminals at the Port of Rouen handle forest products, dry and industrial bulk, and general cargoes. The Port of Rouen’s Flour Terminal of Petit-Couronne supports the transport of bags of flour to/from barges, trains, and ships. The Sweetens Terminal of Rouen has direct connections with service roads accessible to bulk carriers and access to the nation’s highways. The terminal contains a 60-thousand ton storage bin and can receive sugar in bulk. It can also handle bagging of sugar. The Port of Rouen’s Container Terminal at Grand Couronne covers 23 hectares and six gantries for containers. The Container Terminal of the Quay of the West in the Port of Rouen serves containerized cargo, heavy parcels, bulk flour, tubes, and other general cargo. The Paper Terminal of Rouen-Quevilly handles imports of paper products including papers, pastes, and wood as well as exports of both containerized and conventional cargoes. The industrial bulk terminal at the Port of Rouen-Honfleur serves public and private harbor terminals with connections to industrial complexes and platforms. This terminal supports handling of oil products and chemicals, manures, aggregates, coal, slag, cements, peats, bauxite, atapulgite, salts, food liquids, and recycled materials. The Port of Rouen’s Terminal of Saint-Wandrille handles a variety of bulk cargoes including sheet steels, steel reels, peat imports, aggregates, and compost. The Terminals of Port Jerome includes seven private wharves with alongside depths up to 11 meters handling refined oil products, alcohols, and biofuels. The container terminal of Radicatel specializes in containers, vehicles, cross-channel boats, and waste. The Port of Rouen also contains naval repair facilities. The ship repair yard at Croisset includes four workshops used to maintain boats, dredgers, and handling and industrial repair equipment. Traffic figures: Approx 6,900 vessels, 22,700,000t of cargo, 214,870TEU and 31,190 passengers handled annually. Load line zone: North Atlantic Winter Seasonal Zone II, Winter Nov 1 to Mar 31, Summer Apr 1 to Oct 31. Max size: LOA 290m, beam 45m, airdraught 52m. Largest vessels handled: Deadweight tonnage: "Cape Shanghai", 175,000DWT; Tonnage discharged: "Cape Shanghai", 76,500t of coal; Tonnage loaded: "Ostrako", 59,700t of barley; Max LOA: "Amagisan", 290.0m; Max beam: "Cape Shanghai", 45.0m; Max draught: Arrival 11.6m, departure 10.8m. Draughts are mainly dependent on meteorological and hydrological conditions so must be checked every day near the pilot station. Monthly draught predictions and bore tides on website.