Ferries

Veolia Transport manages ferries that are quite different from one another, in a number of countries, based on their deployment location. This diversity of experience strengthens our employees' management skills and their ability to adapt to any situation.

In addition to their conventional transit role, ferries are involved in leisure activities, shuttling riders between ecological sites, providing urban port to-port transit, cruise outings and service to islands without bridges and connecting seaside districts.
Veolia Transport also offers other services, such as cargo freight, international transfers and cruises, a range that strengthens our ability to adapt to any configuration or request.

Veolia Transport therefore has a fleet of "heavy" ferries with the French national ferry line SNCM used essentially for regular maritime routes and organized travel. Other "lighter" and particularly eco-friendly methods can work well in radically different situations.
One example is the "Soleil du Léman," a non-polluting, quiet, stable catamaran that runs on solar power in Thonon-les-Bains; it serves an ecological site on Lake Léman and other urban areas along the lake which follows the border of France and Switzerland.

Veolia Transport's ferries also provide more conventional services.
The best example is the Toulon "maritime omnibus."
With more than 1.2 million passengers and 45,000 crossings a year, the greater Toulon system offers daily maritime service connecting local districts. It is fully coordinated with land routes, both in terms of fares and schedules, to make it easier for riders to transfer to other modes of transport.