VOIES NAVIGABLES DE FRANCE (VNF)

Voies Navigables de France (VNF) is a French public administrative body responsible for managing around 80% of France’s waterway network, under the supervision of the French government’s Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Transport and Mobility3 of the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

VNF is the national operator of the French river network, and is a unique institution that, on 2 networks (transport network and tourism network), fulfills 3 major missions in the service of the public: promoting river logistics, contributing to regional development and ensuring global water management.
Accelerating global warming, as the latest IPCC report of March 2022 reminds us, European Green Deal and carbon neutrality by 2050, rising energy costs linked to the crisis in Ukraine, reorganization of logistics chains following the COVID crisis, impacts of atmospheric pollution on public health…, the issues are becoming more and more pressing to accelerate the energy and ecological transition of the transport sector and river transport in particular.
VNF is continuing its “Vert le fluvial” approach begun in 2019 to mobilize the river ecosystem around the greening of the fleet.