LE PORT FLUVIAL

Inland navigation played an essential role in the development and economic activity of the city. Nogent is also defending the expansion of the canal (additional 15 ha) this year, which can thus confer up to 600 000 tons annually. From the Middle Ages, its port of embarkation was considered one of the most consequential, from the source of the river to Paris. He thus occupied the first place when Philippe de Valois created the granaries to salt. On the wharf of Petit-Saint-Laurent, facing the back of the halle, flour and wheat were taken to Paris, even Lyon and Marseille. The boaters who go back to the Seine can finally stop at Nogent in optimum conditions by taking advantage of a now operational river stopover, two minutes from the city center, Wharf Carbonel, upstream of the Grands Moulins, 50 m from the Dubois-Boucher Museum. It is made up of a 40 m wharf, and it will tie up some three boats. A terminal will provide you with free water and electricity supplies for this river port most upstream of the Seine. Pending the rehabilitation of the canal de la Haute-Seine, entered in the contract of plan State-Region, a second barley silo has just joined the first. The project is to develop an exchange to Northern Europe, particularly to Belgium and the Netherlands.