BRAZIL Press kit April, 2015 HAROPA-Ports of Paris Seine Normandy: a complete commercial offer for our South-American clients From 7 till 9 April 2015, HAROPA will participate in the Intermodal South America Show in São- Paulo. An opportunity for HAROPA to meet South-American customers and to present its offer. HAROPA: a customer-dedicated transport system HAROPA (Le HAvre ROuen PAris) is an Economic Interest Group which have grouped together commercial, networks, strategy and communication services, since January 2012. HAROPA is the last port of call in the north-european range on export to South America and it enjoys an outstanding geographic location on the northern sea coast of France; an advantage which makes it possible to offer the shortest transit times to our customers in the world. As the 5 th largest north-european port system, HAROPA is a major maritime hub capable of supplying the Paris region and the European market, via the river Seine and thanks to its high-quality connection network. Endowed with a competitive and sustainable logistics system, together with a Single shop for the three ports, the services of HAROPA allow a high-performance and eco-friendly supply of the hinterland. HAROPA generates a total of about 120 million tonnes of sea and river traffic each year. 1
HAROPA: leader port for the French market and maritime gateway of Europe HAROPA serves 25 million consumers within 24 hours and 200 million consumers within 48 hours. Main advantages: 24/7 accessibility The biggest shipping companies have chosen HAROPA : Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hamburg Süd, Hapag, Marfret, CSAV The Seine artery provides fluid and rapid access to the European Greater West; HAROPA can thus provide world-connected multimodal services. Access to a major hinterland in Europe: Gateway to the Paris region, # 1 French consumer market The new Multimodal Terminal, operational in June 2015, will make container transfers in and out the terminals more fluid and will tranship sea containers onto rail wagons or river barges. The platform will provide new services with the logistics zones in Le Havre. The Multimodal Terminal accounts for an investment of 140 million. River transport generates 4 times less CO 2 than road haulage A network of modern and fluid river, rail and road infrastructure connects the city and industrial centres in Europe (more than 80 rail connections and 120 river connections per week) A direct connexion to Roissy Charles de Gaulle, Europe s No. 1 cargo airport 1,2 billion multiannual investments First-class shipping services Port of Le Havre: # 1 French port for container traffic, operates the most part of the container trade in full containers Port of Rouen: # 1 cereal port in France 24/7 accessibility : outstanding nauticality International shipping services with the shortest transit times to all continents (600 ports of call in the world and more than 3,100 commercial offers) HAROPA is one of the very few ports of the north -European Range with a positive growth for container traffic in 2014 (26.9 million tonnes et 2.6 million TEU) = +5% en tonnage. 2
Our quality charter and certification, our environmental actions ISO 28000 (security) HAROPA - Port of Le Havre: 1 st European port authority and the 2 nd in the world to be ISO 28 000 certified ISO 9001 (quality) HAROPA - Port of Le Havre: certified HAROPA - Port of Rouen: Harbour Master s Office certified ISO 14001 (environment) HROPA Ports of Paris: Gennevilliers platform certified In 2014, HAROPA was re-elected, for the 4 th year in a row Best Seaport in Europe (before Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg) by the logistics professionals of the Asia-Pacific region. 2015: the «Green Port» year Committed partner in the COP 21 (the 21 st United Nations conference for the climate - December 2015 in Paris), HAROPA claims to be an environmentally-friendly logistics and port system and an active stakeholder involved in the fight against climate change. HAROPA Port of Le Havre was awarded the PERS certification in January 2015 Awarded by the EcoPorts foundation, the PERS (Port Environmental Review System) is an environmental benchmark designed to assess and compare the environmental performance of ports. The certificate will be officially presented in October 2015 in Copenhagen (Denmark) on the course of the next Greenport Congress. 3
French customs, partner of HAROPA French Customs rank 1 st in the World Bank s list «Doing Business 2015» for cross-border trade, which assesses the number of formalities, the time and the cost of import / export for standardized goods using the maritime ways. HAROPA offers Overseas France numerous customs and fiscal opportunities, allowing a simple, fast, secure and accessible customs clearance of the goods: 83;7% of the cargo wait for less than 1 hour in Le Havre s roads Exemption from the VAT on export by an automated and real time return of outbound cargo voucher documents Reverse charge procedure for VAT on import (from January 1 st, French importers can defer payment of this amount onto their VAT declaration of the following month and have it paid from the credit derived from their purchases) Fast and low-cost customs clearance, within less than 5 minutes Customer-oriented services provided by the Customs board (assistance for formalities, tailor-made customs solutions) Accessible customs clearance 24h/7days with the system DELT@ A single contact: Customs Regional Directorate Tel. +33 970 27 41 41, pae-le-havre@douane.finances.gouv.fr. The Port Single Window S)ONE of SOGET which assures the traceability of the operations HAROPA, competitive logistics and land solutions unique in France # 1 French logistics hub 500 hectares of land reserves and 400,000 sq. m. of warehouses available immediately and in the future for the reception of logistics business Warehouses connected to all transport modes The world biggest logistics operators and freight forwarders have chosen HAROPA A qualified, reliable and successful workforce: A full range of international specialized trainings Low rate of temporary employment Strengthening of the logistics hubs on HAROPA for 3 years, with more than 15 company s setting-up: SDV, CFAO, FedEx, Danone Baby Nutrition, SD Log, Capgel, Panalpina, Nichirei, Daher, Slaur Sardet, etc. 4
Solutions for containerised cargo 5 rail operators: Ferovergne, Naviland Cargo, Greenmodal Transport, GCA and Paganella 7 waterway operators: Logiseine, Logiyonne, Greenmodal Transport, Fluviofeeder, MSC, SNTC-CARLine and UNM More than 15 port platforms and terminals served: an infrastructure network adapted to the supply of the consumer market Cold-chain Logistics Park dedicated to the storage of temperature-controlled goods - HAROPA - Port of Le Havre container terminal HAROPA, the crucial link for the breakbulk logistics chain Heavy-lift operation HAROPA Port of Rouen HAROPA provides strong competitive advantages for heavy lifts/oogs: 1,800 heavy lifts in 2014 35 berths for heavy-lift cargo along the river Seine including 4 berths in partner ports A wide range of handling equipment for heavy lifts (gantry cranes, cranes, sheer-legs, floating pontoon, Roll-l-on/Roll-off ramps, etc.) 5
Import from Brazil Goods exchanged with Brazil Export to Brazil Coffee Wood products Paper/ Cardboard Tobacco Auto parts Foodstuff products (meat, fish and fruit) Auto parts Chemicals manufactured products Perfumes and wine Foodstuff products Malt River transport: an ecological, easy, highly-competitive, flexible and secure solution: River transport, an alternative mode on the Seine corridor, is an efficient solution to carry heavy-lift/out-ofgauge cargo, with no limitation in weight or volume in lo-lo and ro-ro handling. Simplified regulations with administrative reactivity and simplicity for companies Specific care for goods, on each operation, with no division of the goods from the departure to the arrival Reduction of the unexpected events and higher security Regular river service able to manage all types of shipments without limitation in weight and volume. A high-performance reefer offer HAROPA is a major platform for temperature-controlled cargo traffic. An expertise recognized by transport and cold logistics professionals. Together with a panel of highly competitive and sustainable services makes that HAROPA is the # 1 French centre for the importation of reefer products. HAROPA, your storage solution for temperature-controlled goods: Cold-chain logistics park dedicated to the storage of temperature-controlled goods, reception of the world biggest specialized shipping companies 50 freight forwarders specializing in reefer transport 550 000 cu m. of warehousing at positive temperatures (0 to 15 ) or negative temperatures (down to - 26) 3,000 reefer plugs in containers terminals (more are available if needed) Monitoring 24h/24 of containers (breakdown detection, checks of temperature and humidity rates, etc.) A first-class service for shipping: A single checkpoint: grouping on the same site of the veterinary, phyto-sanitary (PIF/PEC in French) and customs services Le Havre s Border Inspection Post and EU Entry Post : the leading French centre for veterinary and phyto-sanitary checks in France for your imports to Europe 99.3 % acceptance rate for temperature-controlled checked goods in 2014 Close to the International Market of Rungis, the largest fresh produce market in the world and to the MIN (National Interest Market) of Rouen. 6
Hamburg Süd has chosen Le Havre In October 2014, the German shipowner Hamburg Süd chose HAROPA - Port of Le Havre to baptize their new ship «Cap-San-Antonio». The capacity of this reefer vessel is 9.600 TEU. Hamburg Süd, which already owns 105 ships, is the first HAROPA - Port of Le Havre s client for South America and Brazil especially. South America and Central America represent 15% of the total volumes of HAROPA - Port of Le Havre Contacts in France Commercial and marketing Director: Hervé Cornède Tel: +33 (0)2. 32.74.73.12 dir.marketing@haropaports.com International development Manager: Patrick Locquet Tel: +33 (0)2. 32.74.72.04 patrick.locquet@haropaports.com Contacts in Brazil HAROPA s representative in Brazil: Jean-Pierre Bernard Tel: +55 (11).51.81.22.18 haropa@bea-fbd.com Consultant: Lucia Dulac Tel: +55 (11).38.16.83.47 Mobile: +55 (11).98.39.503 haropa@bea-fbd.com About HAROPA - HAROPA, the 5 th largest port complex in Northern Europe, is a joint venture between the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris. It is connected to every continent owing to a first-rate international shipping offer (linking 600 ports worldwide). It serves a vast hinterland whose core is in the Seine valley and the Paris region forming the biggest French consumer market area. With around 10 Normandy and Paris area partner ports, the "one-stop" hub now forms in France a global transport and logistics system, capable of providing a comprehensive end-to-end service. HAROPA handles over 120 million tons of cargo by sea and waterway each year. HAROPA business represents 160,000 jobs. www.haropaports.com 7