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A priori, such a tonnage had never been transported from the port of Caen-Ouistreham. Beyond the record, this confirms that the new guidance system allowing wider ships (from 24 m to 27.4 m) to pass through the locks at Ouistreham meets the new standards of world traffic and the objective that motivated this heavy investment: to sustain the economic future of the port of Caen-Ouistreham. By choosing the port of Caen-Ouistreham, the owner of the Federal Raser validates the investments (€12 million) of Ports de Normandie (€10 million) and its operator, the CCI Caen Normandie (€2 million) who have been able to adapt the port in order to meet the needs of their customers.

Ports of Normandy in figures:

Owner and manager of the ports of Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe, Ports of Normandy are:

6,000 direct and indirect jobs

€420 million invested in Normandy since its creation in 2007

100 ha dedicated to renewable marine energies

2 future maintenance bases

2 million cross-Channel passengers per year

7 Mt of goods per year …