📋 Tender Overview
Reference: 20200759
Release date: 26 August 2022
Promoter – Financial Intermediary
SOCIETE DU CANAL SEINE-NORD EUROPE
Location
France
Description
The project, Seine Nord Europe Canal Project, consists of the construction of a new 107 km long class Vb inland waterway connection between Compiègne and Aubencheul-au-Bac. The project is the central link in the larger Seine-Scheldt cross-border project connecting the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) core waterways in the Seine and Scheldt basins and several core and comprehensive inland ports in the region.
Objectives
The Seine Nord Europe Canal Project is the central link in the larger cross-border Seine- Scheldt project which was identified as an EU priority project (nr30) in 2004 (Decision 884/2004/EC). In the current TEN-T framework, the Seine - Scheldt project is a pre-identified project on the North Sea - Mediterranean Core Network Corridor. The project consists of investments addressing a missing link in the TEN-T Core inland waterway network in France. The project contributes to the EU policy objective to decarbonise transport by creating the conditions for a significant modal shift of long-distance freight traffic to energy-efficient transport modes. The project will be implemented in the Région Hauts-de-France, which is defined as a "Transition Region." Consequently, the project is expected to be eligible under Article 309 point a) "projects for developing less-developed regions" and under Article 309 point c) "projects of common interest" of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.
Sector(s)
Transport - Transportation and storage
Proposed EIB finance (Approximate amount)
EUR 800 million
Total cost (Approximate amount)
EUR 6651 million
Voies Navigable De France (VNF), is undertaking the development of the Seine Nord Europe Canal between Oise and Aubencheul-au-Bac, in France.
The project involves the construction of a 107.4km long canal with 54m width and 4.5m depth, seven water locks, three canal bridges, 61 roads and rail bridges, two loading docks, one water reservoir, four platforms, five-grain docks, access roads, and other facilities.
The project will be constructed on 2,450 hectares of land and features the construction of two railway bridges at Creil-Jeumont and Amiens.
The project will be developed in four phases: Phase I (Compiègne to Passel), Phase II (Passel to Allaines), Phase III (Allaines to Etricourt-Manancourt) and Phase IV (Etricourt-Manancourt to Aubencheul-au-Bac).
The purpose of the project is to link France’s Seine River to Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands to transport about 13 million tonnes of cargo by river, the equivalent of 500,000 trucks per year thereby reducing CO2 emissions in the region.
This link is on the list of priority projects of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) and is one of the major projects of the core network corridor identified as a bottleneck: the North Sea to the Mediterranean.
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