2024 Investments Mainly Focussing on Energy Transition

The Port Authority’s investment programme included in the initial budget for 2024 constitutes the fourth year of implementation of the long-term investment plan for the period 2021-2030. Representing the amount of 33.5 M€, it is a key lever in ramping up digital, energy and ecological transition.

It is true that, being very reliant on fossil energy, the Port’s economic model has to identify new growth drivers, through the value enhancement of Port Authority real estate and the development of industrial sectors of activity, in particular in relation to marine renewable energy.

Towards New Growth Drivers

In this way, the development operations incorporated in the 2024 budget help to activate these levers and contribute to ecological and energy transition, notably with the development of urban and port-based logistics at Cheviré (2.5 M€), shipbuilding and ship repair, and the diversification into the MRE sectors (4.5 M€). This approach also involves the value enhancement of Port Authority real estate (Plug & Play platforms (2.7 M€), warehousing to serve local logistical requirements (0.5 M€) and city-port interface tertiary real-estate projects (0.3 M€)) or the deployment of renewable energy sources (studies relating to the Éole facility in Saint Nazaire (2.5 M€) and to the work to adapt the port infrastructures to serve the MRE sectors (0.3 M€)).

Upkeep and Maintenance of Assets

7 M€ are set aside for generic, recurring specialist maintenance operations conducted on Port Authority assets in the course of a year. In addition, 12.5 M€ are reserved for individual, major maintenance operations on Port Authority assets, including 5 M€ devoted to operations contributing directly to digital, energy and ecological transition.