The Rhone ports

The Ports of the Rhône are 17 industrial and port activity zones, including the Port of Lyon, managed by CNR. They are positioned approximately every 20 km on the Rhône River, a strategic communications route between Northern and Southern Europe and connected to the entire world via the Ports of Marseille/Fos and Sète.

The Rhone ports: 928 hectares of business activities and opportunities

Serviced lots available for construction, ready-to-use warehouses and business premises, etc. There are so many solutions on the Ports of the Rhône adapted to every logistic requirement: river, road and rail transport. The Rhone ports provide direct access to the ports of Fos/Marseille and Sète and thus to the whole world, and there are rail links to northern Europe.

The Rhone ports are levers for economic performance: they provide companies the opportunity to deploy an optimised multimodal logistic strategy, by making available to them services and infrastructures adapted to their needs.

River transport: ecological and economical

The transport of one tonne of goods by river generates on average 4 times less CO₂ emissions than road transport and consumes 5 times less fuel. River transport is also more economically competitive: it can be less costly than road transport for certain logistic chains.

The main advantages of river transport are:

lower energy consumption than road and rail: a benefit for the environment thanks to a limited carbon footprint, a budgetary advantage for companies which can also include river transport in their CSR policy,
relieving congestion on road networks and reducing the number of accidents on the roads,
the development of new economic activities and the creation of jobs in the Rhône valley.

The Rhone ports in key figures

928

hectares,

17

industrial and port activity zones

172

companies already established along the Rhône

5,178

direct jobs.

The Port de Lyon in key figures

70

companies installed in the enterprise zone,

9 km

waterway edge including 2.2 km of straight quays

2

container and heavy lift terminals

22 km

of railway lines.