The "Pays
d'Arles" is at the centre
of a remarkable
infrastructure network :
• The airport of Marseille-Provence:
second-largest airport in France for freight.
• Rail transport: nearby the Miramas railway station, the largest marshalling
yard in the south of France.
•The Port of Marseille/Fos: principal port for all good in France and
for the Mediterranean basin.
•The Arles river port: principal river-sea port on the Saône-Rhône
corridor. (500,000 metric tons / year).
The Arles quadri-modal platform combines :
• The river: accessible to multiple
barge convoy sets up to 4000 t from Chalon-sur-Saône.
• The sea: the port of Arles can accept boats weighing up to 3000 t, which
can not go any further upstream up the Rhone .
• The rail network: accessible to complete rail convoys at the dockside
.
• The motorway infrastructure is connected to the European networks .
And is based around 3 sites :
• The Arles river-sea port and its industrial
port site covering 41 hectares.
• The northern industrial zone ("ZIN") covering 56 hectares,
70 companies already have facilities there .
• The Great Rhone business park, 19 hectares, which extends the northern
industrial zone and adjoins the port zone.
The Arles quadrimodal platform offers
a number
of major attractions :
ROAD NETWORK :
• At the meeting point of the North/South
and East/West corridors.
• Direct access to the port via the ring-road around Arles.
• Motorway network: A54, A7, A9.
RAIL NETWORK :
• Special branch track on the Paris
- Marseille zone.
• Can receive whole trains.
• Rail lines on the dockside. A rail-road weigh-bridge.
• Hoppers and handling pit.
MARITIME NETWORK :
• Mediterranean boundary direct via
river-sea vessels up to 4000 metric tons.
• Scheduled routes and tramping.
INLAND WATERWAY NETWORK :
• The Rhone offers excellent conditions
for navigation between Arles and the sea.
• Freycinet canal boats, 400 cu. m., 250 metric tons.
North of France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium.
multiple barge convoy sets up to:
- 5000 metric tons between Arles/Fos, Arles/Lyon.
- 4000 metric tons Lyon/Chalon-sur-Saône.
30 ha of land available, all serviced by these
four modes.
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