Helping enhance the Seine Valley’s attractiveness for tourists

HAROPA PORT wants to welcome cruise ships and cruise passengers calling at Le Havre in the best possible conditions. Since 2022, the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban community and HAROPA PORT - through Le Havre Croisières public interest group, and with the support of the Normandy region, have been engaged in an ambitious project to develop the cruise hub at Pointe de Floride (find out more).

The port is carrying out work to modernize and electrify its quays at Pointe de Floride. Since the end of 2025, the Pierre Callet quay has been electrified and operational (find out more). Work is now continuing on the Roger Meunier and Joannès Couvert quays.

This project, known as RENAQ (Raccordement Électrique des Navires A Quai, or Electrical Connection for Ships at Quay), has a total budget of €32 million, broken down as follows:

HAROPA PORT is extending shore-side electrification to cruise terminals in Rouen and Honfleur:

• work on shore-side electrification at the Rouen cruise terminal is expected to continue until the end of 2026;
• in Honfleur, the electrified quay is expected to come into service in 2027. 

Find out more.

The work done in 2016 (€300,000) by HAROPA PORT | Le Havre (in partnership with Brittany Ferries) has boosted ferry activity. The objective is to provide a regular cross-channel ferry service that is optimal from the standpoints both of security and customer reception.

More recently, HAROPA PORT has reorganised the Great Britain terminal in the wake of the entry into force of Brexit. 

• Port Legrand (Boulogne-Billancourt)
  Legrand port is located in an area undergoing profound changes with numerous urban projects in the vicinity that take full advantage of the Seine’s proximity not only for river transport but also for recreational activities and pedestrians. Rehabilitation work on the quays will ensure that port-related activities and recreation can coexist more satisfactorily along the riverbanks.

   

• Bonneuil-sur-Marne Port
  This is an ecological rehabilitation project on the banks of the Marne upstream and downstream of the port.

• Lower Javel Port
  The project involves preserving and intensifying the economic activity specific to the port while at the same time providing the general public with a living and leisure space based on the creation of high-quality, high-functionality site developments. Such requalification will allow the area to accommodate all users – walkers, cyclists, joggers – in complete safety and security at appropriate times of day.  

   

• Corbeil Saint-Nicolas Port
  Redevelopment works involving the creation of a mixed-use quay combining port activities, services for barge operators and recreational and event-related activities.