Extension of Le Havre port (France)

Construction of the new port by extending the existing port southwards into the Seine estuary

Client: Port Autonome du Havre - Scales: 1/1000 (Horizontal) - 1/100 (Vertical)

The aims of the movable-bed scale-model study were:

  • to determine the influence of the planned development works on the hydrosedimentary context of the Seine estuary and in particular on the northern mudflats and access channel to the port of Rouen,
  • to assess sedimentation in the new installations.
The movable bed scale model | Artelia hydraulics
The movable bed scale model
Overall view of the Seine estuary sedimentological model | Artelia hydraulics
Overall view of the Seine estuary sedimentological model
The modelling also enabled the project's mitigation measures to be fine-tuned (mudflats).

The mudflats (mitigation measure) | Artelia hydraulics
The mudflats (mitigation measure)

Study of the mudflats with the physical model | Artelia hydraulics
Study of the mudflats with the sedimentological model

... and examination of the filandres changes | Artelia hydraulics
... and examination of the filandres changes

The area represented on the model was 35 km long, running from above Tancarville bridge to 6km offshore.

Concertation around the model | Artelia hydraulics
Concertation around the model

Port 2000 | Artelia
Port 2000

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