Voies navigables de France

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Voies navigables de France
AbbreviationVNF
PredecessorOffice National de la Navigation
Formation1991
Headquarters175 rue Ludovic Boutleux
62400 Béthune
President
Laurent Hénart
Director general
Thierry Guimbaud
Staff
4000
Websitehttp://www.vnf.fr/
A barge on the River Seine, one of the waterways managed by VNF.

Voies navigables de France (VNF, English: Navigable Waterways of France) is the French

Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Territorial Development (French: Ministère de l'Écologie, de l'Energie, du Développement durable et de l'Aménagement du territoire). The headquarters of VNF are in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais
with local offices throughout France.

French waterways network

The French natural and man-made waterways network is the largest in Europe

Brittany Canals, which are both under local management, and neither is the River Lot in Aquitaine
.

Enhancements

Approximately 20% of the network is suitable for commercial boats of over 1000 

Price Waterhouse Coopers[when?] showed that 75% of French companies were willing to switch to barge transport.[citation needed
]

A major current initiative is the cross-border Seine–Nord Europe Canal project, connecting the Seine and the Scheldt, which will provide a continuous wide-gauge navigation from Le Havre to Antwerp.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Waterways development". VNF. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  2. ^ "Presentation complete" (PDF). VNF (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  3. ^ "Questions and Answers". VNF. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  4. ^ "Seine-Scheldt". Inland Navigation Europe. Retrieved 2008-10-29.

External links

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