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 Seine River Steamers The Seine River was the scene of many early experiments with steam navigation. The steamship has a long ancestry, dating back at least to 1783 when the Marquis de Jouffray d'Abbans steamed his little boat, the Pyroscaphe, across the Seine. Robert Fulton even exhibited one to Napoleon's regime. With the success of the steam engine by the 1820s, the Second Republic embarked on a series of navigation improvements to raise weirs and locks with which to deepen the navigation channel. By the 1860s improvements had changed the riverbed from low-lying sand banks and trickle to a series