Port of Calais set for €400m investment

Costing in the region of €400m ($523.5m), the project, which is backed by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Regional Council, will double the size and capacity of the port.

The development is part of a major regeneration programme for the region, which will include a new logistics park, offering 220,000 sq m of warehousing and 11,000 sq m of office space.  Additionally there will be a 160 ha leisure development around the exit of the Channel Tunnel.

Calais is France’s fourth busiest port in terms of traffic, handling 36m tonnes of cargo last year, behind Marseille Fos, Le Havre and Dunkirk; it is the busiest passenger port in Europe seeing almost 10m passengers and 1.8m cars last year.