Ports de Normandie (France): a union of three ports to boost the economic and social development of their local regions

Ports de Normandie owns and operates the ports of Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe. Here are the organisation’s vital statistics: 6,000 direct and indirect jobs (source: 2016 study by INSEE) €410m invested in Normandy between 2007 and 2020 100 hectares of land devoted to Renewable Marine Energy and two planned maintenance bases 2 million cross-Channel passengers per year 7 million tonnes of goods per year Nearly 60 cruise stopovers per year and over 150,000 cruise passengers 3,200 marina berths, a dry port and 33,600 overnight stays one-third of Normandy’s declared fishing tonnage Comprehensive ship repair services Ports de Normandie was created from an alliance between the Normandy Region, the départements of Calvados, Manche…