Independent Port of Strasbourg sites include the main port of Strasbourg and other sites such as Lauterbourg lying along the Rhine. http://www.strasbourg.port.fr/ Independent Port of Strasbourg The Independent Port of Strasbourg (; P.A.S.) is a port on the Rhine river, in the city of Strasbourg, France. Created in 1926, it is a public transport hub under the control of the French transport ministry. The port is the second biggest river port of France after Paris, and the third largest port on the Rhine after Rotterdam and Duisburg. There are two terminals for containers equipped with 3 multimodal gantry cranes. There are 320 companies located
Seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg official home. The Parliament's five buildings, all named after distinguished European politicians, are located in the "Quartier Européen" (European Quarter) of the city, which it shares with other European organisations which are separate from the European Union's. Previously the Parliament used to share the same assembly room as the Council of Europe. Today, the principal building is the Louise Weiss building, inaugurated in 1999. The Louise Weiss building (IPE 4) (named after Louise Weiss, a French former member of the parliament), is located in the Wacken district of Strasbourg, south of Schiltigheim, between the 1920s workers' suburban colony ("Cité ouvrière")