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Strasbourg's geographical situation make the city a strategic location :
at the heart of the wealthiest regions in Europe
at the centre of the European communication networks
on the border with Germany, France's principal economic partner
on the bank of the Rhine, a major European river traffic axis
Points of reference :
- The Port Autonome de Strasbourg is the second largest river port in France and second largest port on the Rhine.
- More than 183,500 tonnes of merchandise transited Strasbourg's freight terminal in 2006
- Aerial freight at
Strasbourg Entzheim Airport amounted to 20,613 tonnes in 2006
The Port Autonome de Strasbourg
An industrial and logistical hub, the Port Autonome de Strasbourg covers several sites between Lauterbourg and Marckolsheim. The maritime installations in Strasbourg are the largest, with a total surface area of 1,000 hectares.
354 companies are based here, employing more than 13,000 people in the industrial sector, as well as in the logistics and services sectors :
- automobile
- agri-food
- metallurgy
transport distribution
processing of general merchandise
freight forwarding
agricultural produce
petroleum products
Freight traffic reached 10,4 million tonnes in 2006, broken down into :
- 8.5 million in river traffic
- 1.9 million in rail traffic
In its southern sector, the Port Autonome operates a container terminal equipped with two multipurpose gantries. Maritime containers can arrive or leave by Rhine barges, train and truck. Ten weekly scheduled boat services on the Rhine are thus able to serve Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugge. Length of the voyage : 40 hours.
The success of the container terminal has brought the situation close to saturation and led to the creation of a second terminal, the first phase of which was implemented in September 2004. Storage capacity will eventually rise to 7,500 containers (4,500 as of September 2004). Between now and 2006, the Port Autonome has scheduled 36.3 million euro in investments.
The siting of the new container terminal to the north of the bridges between Strasbourg and Kehl will enable boats to serve coastal ports with 4 layers of containers (as opposed to 3 for the terminal located upstream).
The Fischer / Millipore examples
The Fischer brewery (Heineken group) has acquired one of the largest logistics platforms at the Port Autonome. This infrastructure enables its to manage 450 different products (reception, storage and distribution), which had formerly been spread over five sites around Strasbourg. The site of the Rhine port includes the most recent technological developments in supply chain management. For shipping agents, this translates as a 50 % reduction in waiting time. The management of this logistics platform has been entrusted to Gondrand which employs sixty people on the site.
Millipore has chosen the Port du Rhin to house its European logistics centre, which covers a surface area of 6,500 m². Every day, almost 2,500 pallets of finished products, originating from the group's seven plants, for dispatch to national and European markets, are handled by employees of the Alsatian group, Heppner. Nearly 50 employees from this logistical service provider are active on the site.
Logistical references in Alsace
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