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Stéphane Beaudet, Vice President, Transport and Sustainable Mobility, and Thierry Guimbaud, General Manager of Voies Navigables de France, have signed two agreements in favor of the Region's financial support for the Modal Transfer Assistance Plan (PARM) and the Modernization and Innovation Assistance Plan (PAMI) for projects located in the region. Manager of the French river network, Voies navigables de France (VNF) aims to develop river transport by stimulating transport demand from shippers, and by encouraging river transport operators to modernize their units. Thus, VNF renewed its national aid schemes for the period 2018-2022 for a total amount of € 29 million (excluding co-financing from the Regions): the Modal Transfer Assistance Plan (PARM) intended to support shippers wishing to resort to the river and the Modernization and Innovation Assistance Plan (PAMI) to help the fleet adapt to environmental and regulatory requirements. The PARM and the PAMI have been validated by the European Commission.

On March 15, 2018, the Île-de-France Region adopted its "Regional Strategy for Freight and Logistics". With € 50 million over 3 years, this action plan for controlled, efficient and innovative logistics fully integrates river transport. Located at the crossroads of trade in goods flows, densely irrigated by waterways, the Île-de-France is an important consumer base for the growing needs of freight transport. The strategy deployed by the Region reflects its ambition to reconcile economic attractiveness and environmental excellence, and allows the regions to support a more virtuous and responsible logistics. The regional contribution will be € 1 million for PARM and € 1.5 million for PAMI.

This assistance from the Region will enable VNF to handle a larger number of files on the IDF region, and thus to participate in a better integration of the river mode in the logistic chains. River transport has many economic and ecological advantages for the Paris region's logistics industry: significant capacity reserves, a high growth and innovation potential, safe and reliable transport, respectful of deadlines, and a reduction of nuisances for agglomerations. .