Environmental impacts and social acceptability of ports

This subject was at the centre of the intervention of Bruno Delsalle, General Manager of the AIVP, at the opening of the National Port Research Day - organised in the French Senate on 9th December last, on the initiative of Professor Sophie Cros of the University of Le Havre and Professor Florence Lerique, of the University of Bordeaux. The debates centred on the question of port attractiveness, interport cooperation and coopetition. For the AIVP, it was once again a question of defending the future of the port cities by underlining that if the latter were often singled…