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technical coordination

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The challengeIThis project involves the installation of transport terminals in the industrial port area. The road-rail terminal, river port or tri-modal hub will help develop the economic potential of the port of Le Havre.The hub will consist of: a river yard for unloading containers, a railway yard serving eight tracks, a railway reception yard including 8 electrified tracks, allowing

mainline freight trains to arrive and leave directly.

When complete, Le Havre’s multimodal hub will be the biggest in France.It will enable containers to be transferred from collection and dis-tribution shuttle services, to the sea-port on one side, and to river barges and mainline trains on the other.The hub will fit into a complex layout of railway lines.

The hub’s railway will connect, eastwards, to a double track rail-way, which is currently under development by the port of Le Havre.

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multimodal logistical hub for the port of le havre

france

characteristicsMaximum speed for freight traffic: 30 km/h4 gantries2 river quayside berths, each measuring 200 m1 railway yard with 8 tracks1 storage areaCapacity: up to 500,000 intermodal freight containersInvestment: 139 M €

stake holdersCustomer/Owner: LH2T (Le Havre Terminal Trimodal)

Customer’s representative: PROJENOR (Crédit Agricole Immobilier)Contractor for the signalling contract (n°4): SYSTRA

costMore than 140 M €

key datesSeptember 2012: project launchAugust 2014: commissioning

at a glance

The management of Le Havre port’s railway infrastructure has been assigned to SNCF. A computerised signalling system for small networks (PIPC) is currently in use.

The hub will also connect to the line serving the “Pont de Normandie” logistical park, to the West.No passenger traffic will use the hub, but three types of freight trains will travel through, at a maximum speed of 30 km/h: mainline trains, pulled by diesel or electric locomotives, diesel powered shuttles, running between the industrial sites, light shunting locomotives, used to make up trains within the

multi-modal hub.

Consequently, specific parts of the hub railway network, such as the reception yard and the adjoining track section to the West, will be electrified.

SYSTRA’s roleSYSTRA is making a major contribution to this ambitious project. In particular, we have taken charge of the railway signalling con-tract, interfacing with the following contracts: contract n°1: earth moving, drainage, roads and service networks, contract n°2: railway track, contract n°3: catenary,

contract n°5: high and low voltage power supply, lighting, contract n°6: buildings.

SYSTRA is in charge of: functional design of signalling, technical plans for signalling, safety studies, RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, safety) studies, Performing some of the tests (control centre and trackside testing,

dynamic testing), up to commissioning of the multimodal hub, Technical coordination.