Le Havre, France: Haropa Port, France’s largest reefer container port, has set it sights on becoming “the port of reference for fruit and vegetables in France”.
Historically, maritime services dedicated to fruit and vegetable traffic have centred on exports. Haropa Port aims to win market share by consolidating imports of container and conventional freight, especially for trade with Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa.
EU directives and CSR pressure for the decarbonisation of activities, plus rising diesel prices, are increasingly leading importers to question their usual ways of doing things and seek out new logistics solutions, the port says.
Haropa Port has approached partners in order to propose competitive, less carbon-
intensive alternatives to customers.
The port says that it offers key advantages for importing fresh fruit and vegetables:
- Proximity to France’s Rungis national wholesale market, the world’s biggest for farm
products, and with the Greater Paris area, the biggest consumer market in France and the second biggest in Europe - Major potential for the development of multimodality on the Seine Axis (Le Havre – Rouen
– Paris), enabling the ecological footprint of operators using this logistics corridor to be reduced - Interconnection with two international airports, Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle,
Europe’s leading airport for freight - A fast-developing port complex that already brings together over 50 freight forwarders
specialising in reefer transport, providing valued-added services and with access to a dedicated refrigeration installed base managed by the largest logistics firms - Overall storage capacity currently totalling 1.1m cubic metres and real estate capable of
accommodating the setting up of refrigerated logistics warehousing facilities - Port terminals equipped with dedicated facilities applying a specific reefer protocol.
Haropa Port, is consolidating its position in this sector.
As part of this drive, Haropa Port, has partnered with Seafrigo and Primever.
