Petroleum products management company SOGEPP (Société de Gestion de Produits Pétroliers) has collaborated with HAROPA PORT, France’s leading port, to boost river traffic to and from its facilities in Gennevilliers.
SOGEPP operates a storage depot for liquid energy products on six hectares in Gennevilliers’ port area. The company, which plays an important link in the Greater Paris fuel distribution chain, distributes mainly to service stations in Greater Paris and neighbouring regions.
SOGEPP’s site at Gennevilliers is the first Paris area depot to invest in river logistics for the development of biobased, sustainable liquid energy products and is said to be in line with the energy transition that has begun along the Seine Axis as a whole.
SOGEPP approached HAROPA PORT to boost river traffic to and from its facilities in Gennevilliers, with the goal to develop this traffic between Normandy’s seaports and the Paris area.
As explained, HAROPA’s Paris office proposed to the firm that it would build a transhipment facility as a practical solution for the desired traffic.
HARPOA PORT delivered this facility in June 2022. By the end of 2022, SOGEPP obtained its regulatory permits and set up transhipment infrastructure on the jetty for discharging and loading liquid energy products. The operating permit for the jetty and the commissioning of the tanks to hold massive quantities of ethanol were obtained in November 2022 after the completion of the work for the petroleum product installations.
Source: World Maritime News
