New member: Eiffage Génie Civil Marine

Edgar Coulomb ©Eiffage Génie Civil Marine With a revenue of 20.3 billion euros and some 76,300 employees worldwide, the Eiffage group is one of Europe’s leading construction and concession firms, fully committed to innovating, designing, building, maintaining, and renovating the cities and infrastructures of the future. Eiffage GC Marine is a subsidiary of Eiffage specialising in major maritime projects in France and around the world. Working for private and public-sector clients under design and construction contracts, Eiffage GC Marine builds port terminals (including container, bulk, RoRo, and cruise terminals), maritime infrastructures for industrial complexes (oil, gas, and mining), and coastal development and protection projects. Being part of the Eiffage family means the firm can offer clients the qualities of a global player capable of delivering the most complex projects all over the world to the same standards of excellence, combined with the agility of a local partner capable of mobilising skills and energies wherever it is working. Some of the projects that Eiffage Génie Civil Marine is currently leading include extending and deepening the port of Cotonou (Benin), developing the industrial fishing port at Pointe Noire (Congo), extending the mineral terminal at Freetown (Sierra Leone), the container terminal at Puerto Antioquia (Colombia), the offshore gas port of Tortue Ahmeyim (Senegal, Mauritania), and the maritime infrastructures at the Al-Zour refinery (Kuwait). Eiffage Génie Civil Marine was keen to join AIVP for 2023. Interview with Edgar Coulomb, General Manager of Eiffage Génie Civil Marine. "Why join our network" AIVP - What made you decide to join AIVP? Our business is almost exclusively international and is mainly concentrated in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe. One of the AIVP’s objectives is cooperation between different urban and port stakeholders on every continent, and so it seemed a logical step to join. We already know many AIVP members, some of them are our clients, others are partners. We maintain an ongoing relationship with them and look forward to meeting the other members. Our port projects all involve multiple stakeholders specialising in different fields, and have to be treated as a link between the sea and the city. By its nature, we saw the AIVP as a forum for knowledge-sharing and discussion between the key parties involved in these complex projects. Boating dock in Pointe Noire (Congo) © Eiffage Génie Civil Marine Eiffage Génie Civil Marine and our other members AIVP - What can you do for the other members of our association? Our job is to design and build maritime infrastructures and what makes us stand out is our strong, in-house technical department that combines expertise in maritime infrastructure engineering and construction methods. It…