Editing Lorient (section)

=== END of 19th CENTURY: MAJOR COMMERCIAL BOOST ===

The port’s trade was only symbolic since the end of the 18th century but it became the scene of frenzied activity at the end of the 19th century. The advent of steam made Lorient Bretagne Sud a large coal importation port between 1870 and the days before the Second World War. Welsh coasters found return freight opportunities with mine timber coming from local fir plantations. The port managed other trade limited in tonnage (cereals, fish roe, wines, salt, lime, sugar) and the commercial activity was moved to the deep water basin of “Kergroise” in order to meet new freight requirements.

* '''1880 :''' global trade 45,000 tonnes

* '''1889, August 27th:''' 1st public facilities management tender won by the Lorient and Morbihan Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the running of 2 cranes on the outer harbour.

* '''1914, July 1st:''' management of all port facilities by the CCI (including fishing boat wharf)
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1920 :''' operational launch of the first section of Kergroise’s first deep water wharf (112.50 m)

* '''1929 :''' 438,000 tonnes, record trade since the end of the 19th century. Coal (239,000 t) represented half of the total port activity

* '''1939 :''' total trade, 293,000 tonnes, in days just before the Second World War 

'''''More informations about the History of Lorient on the [[wikipedia:Lorient]] !'''''