Liege Autonomous Port - Liege Trilogiport Multimodal Platform
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- Year of commitment : 2015
- Address 1 - street : TRILOGIPORT – RUE DU TRILOGIPORT – 4681 HERMALLE SOUS ARGENTEAU, Belgique
- Sustainable mobility : Shipping Infrastructures, Greenways
- Biodiversity & Ecosystems : / Urban Farming, Shared garden , Ecoystem restauration /
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47 000 000 €
- Manager / Dealer
DPW Liege Container Terminals, WDP , Jost Group et Weerts Supply Chain
The Autonomous Port of Liège: a real citizen port
The first Belgian inland port (21 million tonnes in 2018) and the third inland port in Europe after Duisburg and Paris, the Autonomous Port of Liège (PAL) manages 33 ports (382 hectares made available to road users of water) spread out along the Meuse and the Albert canal in the province of Liège.
With a global traffic (water-rail-road) of 21 million tons of goods handled in 2018 - including 16 million tons by the waterway - and 20,000 jobs generated in the Liège region by the port activities, including nearly 10,000 direct employment, the Liège port area is becoming a leading regional economic hub.
The Port of Liège is currently developing a new port area "Liege Trilogiport" (120 ha) located in Hermalle-sous-Argenteau along the Albert Canal, 14 hours sailing from the Port of Antwerp and 24 hours from the Port of Rotterdam. The objective of this multimodal platform is to attract companies using waterways and major European distribution centers with high value-added activities and generating many new jobs.
In order to ensure the well-being of residents, a reflection of the development of the Liège Trilogiport multimodal port area was carried out by the Autonomous Port of Liège and the Public Service of Wallonia so that the project can be integrated as well as possible between the Albert Canal and the village of Hermalle-sous-Argenteau.
Of the 120 ha of Liège Trilogiport, nearly 40 hectares (39 ha more precisely, ie nearly 1/3) are devoted to this environmental integration zone.
Fruit of the exchanges and the permanent and constructive dialogue with the local residents, this zone of environmental integration contents:
- residents by creating orchards and community gardens;
- fishermen through pontoons specially made for fishing;
- walkers and cyclists with RAVeL;
- lovers of nature through waterways with footbridge and a wooded area of 4 hectares;
- protected calamine toads;
- and the local flora and fauna!
Progress Status
Delivered
Data Reliability
Self-declared
Funding Type
Public
Website Enterprise / Infrastructure
http://www.portdeliege.be/fr/Sustainable Development
- residents by creating orchards and community gardens;
- fishermen through pontoons specially made for fishing;
- walkers and cyclists with RAVeL;
- lovers of nature through waterways with footbridge and a wooded area of 4 hectares;
- protected toads;
- and the local flora and fauna!
Testimony / Feedback
Governance
- 2003- 2006 Development of the Liège Trilogiport concept
- 2006 - 2013: Administrative process of the file (procedure for acquisition and management of land by Wallonia, organization of public information meetings, environmental impact study, granting of planning permission, realization of first preparatory works of the Liège Trilogiport area ...)
- 2013 - 2015 Development and construction of the multimodal platform (development of the Liège Trilogiport multimodal platform and its road and rail access)
- November 14, 2015 Inauguration by King Philippe of Belgium
- Spring 2016 Start of container terminal managed by DP World
- 2016 Construction of the first logistics hall developed by WDP
- September 2016
- 2017 Construction of the first second logistics hall developed by JostGroup- 44.000m²
- 2018 Start of JostGroup's commercial activities on the Liège Trilogiport site
Autonomous Port of Liège
Public Local Firm
DPW Liege Container Terminals, WDP , Jost Group et Weerts Supply Chain
Private
The development of the Liège Trilogiport platform in a few key dates:
Home of the first user company Tempo Log Belgium - 18.000m²
Today, the Port of Liège represents an essential economic engine for the whole of our territory, since its creation in 1937. With a hundred companies representing more than 20.000 jobs, its 382 hectares of port lands put at the disposal of the companies, its leading port facilities, its position in the heart of Europe, the PAL has become a leading river port and an essential platform for European logistics.
Autonomous Port of Liège
Public Local Firm
Sustainable Solutions
- Governance :
- Mobility :
- Economic development :
- Biodiversity :
- Urban project governance
- Citizen participation
- Business parks
- Soft transportation
- Infrastructure
- Citizen-awareness
Photo credit
Autonomous Port of Liège