While Ireland and Italy visited the Nuclear plant, Sweden and Poland were put on a bus with a guide to visit the huge port center. It is 17 kilometers long, has 8 docks and approx. 9000 gates. The students couls see vessels, ships, clippers, huge cranes/caterpillars which can take 40 tons of cargo, Arcelor Mittal (largest steel mill in Europe),20 000 containers loaded by cranes to and from ships

 

The students learned the importance of a port and its industrial activity. They also learned that Dunkirk is the number 1 emitter of industrial CO2 in France but also a territory where industrial stakeholders have come together to become the first competitive carbon neutral industrial and port platform. Dunkirk port promotes the development of renewable energies an has identified unoccupied land for solar parks in the future.

FR23 Port Center
FR23 Port Center
FR23 Port Center
FR23 Port Center
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