The extension of the Quai de Flandres was inaugurated today in the presence of Eric Etienne, Sub-prefect for Dunkerque, Patrice Vergriete, Mayor of Dunkerque and President of the Urban Community, Christine Cabau-Woehrel, Executive Vice-President in charge of assets for the CMA CGM Group, Stéphane Raison, President of the Executive Board of Dunkerque-Port, Emmanuelle Verger, Chair of the Supervisory Board of Dunkerque-Port, and Jingtao Bai, CEO of China Merchant Port Group.
SFAN, the acronym for Société Foncière Axe Nord, has decided to move to Dunkerque to develop an ambitious warehouse program in the logistics area of the West Port of Dunkerque. The location means greater proximity to the Container and Ferry Terminals and a gateway to and from the Hauts-de-France Region.
Dunkerque-Port is continuing to develop its combined transport plan with the implementation of the Flandres Express (FLEX) rail service to the East of France from Wednesday 5 June onwards.
For more than 10 years, Dunkerque-Port has pursued a genuinely proactive policy in favour of sustainable development of the port. Implemented in 2014 by the roll-out of the Structural and Sustainable Development Plan (PA2D) which defines and supervises more than 150 operations in that respect, it has resulted in the use of good environmental practices especially in terms of dredging sediment management and preserving biodiversity. The mature strategy recently developed into an environmental management system, which obtained Port Environmental Review System (PERS) certification in 2018 as part of the ECOPORT network.
After officially announcing its decision to locally invest in March 2018, the French international chemical group SNF Floerger signed a building lease with Dunkerque-Port on 22 March 2019, with a view to installing a production plant on the industrial port area of Dunkerque.