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How do you get all the local sail-powered transportation players to join forces in building a sustainable, efficient industrial tool? Lise Detrimont, Managing Director of Wind Ship, provides some answers. Alongside technological research institute IRT Jules-Verne, this Association is co-piloting a major feasibility study that focusses on how the French sail power sector can best be structured.

On 25th May, following their annual general meeting, some twenty members of the Pays de la Loire Regional Transport and Mobility Research Institute (ORTM) visited Nantes ‒ Saint Nazaire Port’s installations.

On 24th May, the container ship CMA CGM Goya put in at berth N° 3 of TGO’s Montoir de Bretagne terminal. This was the first call by the PGW CS Service, the new weekly feeder service operated by CMA CGM to Southern Europe.

At the Wind for Goods event, the trade show dedicated to the sail power sector, the Nantes ‒ Saint Nazaire Development Agency and Nantes ‒ Saint Nazaire Port are announcing that the CWS Company is set to locate to the Saint Nazaire port facility, in a 10 000 m2 building on the site of the former fruit terminal. CWS is planning to create over 200 direct jobs in Saint Nazaire by 2025.

The audit carried out by Bureau Veritas from 20th to 24th March confirmed the robustness of the quality management system deployed by Nantes ‒ Saint Nazaire Port for the next three years in compliance with the ISO 9001 Standard.

Nantes Metropolitan District Council is currently deliberating on how to use the River Loire to remove rubble and excavated earth from and supply materials to the sites of the Metropolitan Area’s future large-scale urban work projects.