Port of Bayonne
The Port of Bayonne, formerly the Royal Arsenal of Bayonne (1666-1836), is a French commercial port on the Atlantic Ocean. It covers the municipalities of Bayonne, Anglet and Boucau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Tarnos in the Landes. It ranks 9th among French commercial ports. A former military port for the Royal Navy and then the French Navy, from 1983 it was also home to a naval base comprising a number of light patrol boats1. This base was disbanded in 2015.
Economic activity
Since 1997, annual traffic has exceeded 4 million tonnes. The Port of Bayonne is located on the Adour estuary and benefits from an excellent logistical location.
It exports products from the industrial and agri-food basins of the Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments:
Sulphur (collected after purification of Lacq gas),
crude oil extracted at Lacq
maize
fertilisers
wood.
Aciéries de l'Atlantique SA, an electric steelworks with a continuous billet mill but no rolling mill, is located on the site. This plant, created in 1995 by the Spanish group Marcial UCIN based in Bilbao, now belongs to another Spaniard, Siderurgica ANON based in La Coruña.
Ford and General Motors have chosen Bayonne to distribute cars manufactured in Spain and Portugal throughout Europe. Sotrasol chemical storage terminal (liquid chemicals).
An oil pipeline links the port of Bayonne to the town of Lacq.
WikipediaWebsite:https://www.bayonne.port.fr/
