Port of Sand-in Olonne

The port of the Sables of Olonne , whose professional installations are managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of the Vendée, cumulates the three types of activity of a port of intermediate size. Its entry being considered difficult, it is equipped with several navigation lights: the Headlight of the Barges at sea, the Headlight of Armandèche, the Headlight of the Bracket and the Headlight of Thatch.

The commercial port

The infrastructures allow the reception of cargo liners of 110 meters for 4 500 deadweight tonnage, with a draft which can go up to 6,50 Mr.

The port sees its activity provided mainly by the treatment of sands extract at sea by boats sand glasses. With a volume of 426 000 tons raises some over 2003, it is the first traffic of the port, follow-up, by cereals for 199 000 tons and manures.

Except aggregates, the port undergoes an erosion of its exchanges, with 123 cargo liners delivered in 2004 per 146 the previous year.

The port shelters in addition a permanent connection freight with the island of Yeu, as well as a seasonal connection passengers. In 2004,20 296 passengers used this line.

The fishing port

The fishing port shelters a flotilla of 68 boats employing 200 sailors with a prevalence of basic trawlers.

At the 17th century, Sands of Olonne armed mainly for cod. In the years 1960, the sardine and the tuna dominated. Today, the activity is diversified and the principal unloaded species are the plate, the bar, the cuttlefish and squids as well as blue fin tuna.

Volume 2003 although raises some over the previous year is lower than the ten years average past.

The marina

Since 1979, the city was equipped with a true marina, Port Olona . From 666 places in the beginning, it passed to 1 100 rings in 1988. It is the largest marina of the Vendée. The basin which can accommodate boats up to 30 Mr. length and 4 Mr. with draft is supplemented by a real estate scheme like by an artisanal zone.

In 2007 of let us bridge for the pleasure were installed vis-a-vis the quays of the fishing port, releasing 115 new places.

The city present in the organization of nautical events sees the departure or the arrival of several races to broad of scale such as:

the Vendée Globe
Sands them the Azores them Sands, transatlantic race of small boats
a stage of the Solitary of the Barber

References

the CCI of Sands
the site of the city
the site of the city and its area

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