Atout Ports takes over the Escales Passport
Announced at the 2018 Nautic, the local semi-public company Atout Ports came into being in spring 2019 to complement the activities of the Compagnie des Ports du Morbihan and develop them on a larger scale. "The action is developed around several components: digital, consulting, port engineering and port management. The digital component concerns in particular the Escales Passport, for which we bought the business from the Compagnie des Ports du Morbihan and for which Gildas Mottais, manager of PrimOcean, the former manager of the passport, has joined us. The objective is to give new impetus to the Escales Passport, which already has 74,000 overnight stays. This will involve providing good information to ports on availability, the arrival of new ports or the proposal of overnight stays to professionals such as insurers, bankers or boat manufacturers to offer to their yachting clients", explains Marina Le Corguillé, director of development for Atout Ports.
In addition to the Escales Passport, the company wants to expand by offering other ports access management services and integrated payment for parking, launching jibs or sanitary facilities...
1st contracts in port engineering and consulting
Atout Ports has landed its first consulting and engineering clients in 2019. The Morbihan-based structure is assisting the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer and its Société Publique Locale d'aménagement to define its new nautical and port offer. In the Vendée, Port Olona has asked Atout Ports to define an action plan to rejuvenate its nautical offer, to study the creation of a quay managed by the port and to analyse the technical management of the waterway. The company also won a call for tenders for a strategic study of 17 marinas in the Vendée.
In addition to consulting, Atout Ports is providing project management assistance for the Tinduff careening area in Finistère. It is also the project manager for the rehabilitation of the slipway at Larmor-Baden.
Atout Ports is preparing to manage marinas
Mentioned when the creation of Atout Ports was announced, the possibility of managing ports outside of Morbihan is still on the table. "We do not forbid ourselves and we are preparing for the management of ports" confirms Marina Le Corguillé. "We will be 10 from January 2020 and we have the recruitment capacities under our belts to respond to Public Service Delegations, if there is an interesting opportunity."
