The wearing of Nice bears also the name of port Lympia . This name comes from the Lympia source which fed a small lake in a marshy zone where into 1745 work of the port was started. It constitutes today the principal harbor installation of Nice - there exists also a small port in the Carras district.
The wearing of Nice is the first port Ciment ier of France in connection with the treatment plants of the Galet S of the valley of the Paillon.
A actitivity of fishing remains, but the number of professional fishermen is now lower than 10.
Nice being the point of continental France nearest to the Corsica , the connections with the island developed with the arrival of the NGV or ships at high speed. Two companies ensure the connections:
- SNCM, a partially public company and
- Corsica Ferries - Sardinia Ferries, an entirely private company.
The wearing of Nice is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry Nice Riviera which had to restrict its projects of extension of the port (to make of it a port of Croisière in particular) because of a bad highway service road. One also thought of placing these extensions to Saint-Laurent-of-VAr of the mouth of the Var and near the Aéroport of Nice, but this place is used as natural reserve with various species of birds which come to nest there.
Mysterious a 16 hour old wave is announced since 1992 in various points of the coast without one being able formally to see of it the cause in the wake of NGV.
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