Port of Le Havre complex designed by the famous French architect Jean Nouvel. Moreover, the future marina will be close to the railway station and the A29 motorway and former A15, facilitating its access. Le Havre also receives famous Jacques Vabre transatlantic. The port of Le Havre can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners. Le Havre is one of the UNESCO cities. Due to its geographical location, on the Seine River mouth, at the entrance of the Channel, Le Havre is a gateway to Normandy and Paris. In 2010, Le Havre cruise port hosted 70 calls and 130,000 passengers and should, in 2011,
Seine River Steamers the city each year their cargo of cereals, coal, and building materials. Factories were constructed and products as diverse as sugar and boots were produced. During the Paris Commune bloodshed was so bad that the Seine ran red with blood. Traffic on the Seine entered into consciousness in a different way too—the Pre-Impressionist and impressionist painters would paint the River scenes from the Pont Neuf, to Argenteuil. And so we are left with colourful and sometimes cubist, copies of age old scenes. In 1867, the year of an exposition, another famed Paris institution came into being—that of the Bateau Mouche.