Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta

1 Toile Industrielle Dunkirk A tool for synergies and territorial development
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What is the relation with the port and water?
The AGUR and the regional economic actors are at
the origin of this tool. Because the Toile Industrielle®
offers a territorial and schematic view of relationships
between industries and their links with national
and international markets it is also useful to investors
in order to find potential suppliers, customers,
and subcontractors. For some projects, it is even
used to simulate new synergies, especially in the
case of industrial sites.
The port of Dunkirk is one of the main users in the
sense that it is a port strategy tool to capture new
markets, observe the strategic positioning of competing
ports, optimize access to utilities ...
What is the relation with the city?
The regional economic actors are at the origin of
this tool: investors find it useful in order to locate
potential suppliers, customers, and subcontractors.
It also works as marketing support, used the wide
use the regional development agency makes of it
demonstrates.
It can also be used as a medium of cooperation between
institutions, as it makes it possible to ensure
the sharing of information, the seizure of opportunities
and even the contracting of services and / or
exchanges, for the benefit of the circular economy
and industrial ecology.
What are the ambitions?
The participatory dimension of the Toile Industrielle® is
one of the most innovative. Indeed, the construction of
such ‘toile’ or canvas requires a collaboration because
otherwise, it is difficult to assemble this type of data
without crossing the expertise and knowledge of each
other. The powerful synergies between the port, the
local authorities, and other local actors make it possible
to see Dunkirk as a favorable breeding ground.
Today, this approach, mainly carried out by municipal
planning agencies, is in full development as new
experiences in Le Havre, Saint-Nazaire, Grenoble,
Besançon... reflect.
Currently, the Toile Industrielle is continuing its digital
development with the creation of the Web 3.0
“TOILE MAKER®”.
Who is behind it?
During the 2008 crisis, the Urban Community of
Dunkirk (CUD) decided to anticipate the domino effects
of industrial site closures that were looming
on the horizon. It asked AGUR to map the productive
ecosystems present in the region as to support
the negotiations related to eventual shutdowns -like
in 2009, when the government announced the cessation
of refining activities of Total. The trade union
seized the canvas and, by clearly displaying the synergies
existing around the refinery, it made it possible
to grasp the disastrous repercussions, in the
first place the Port which would lose 15% of its turnover
and 17% of its activity.
Sources
www.agur-dunkerque.org/etudes-projets/article13
www.toilemaker.com/press/
The Toile Industrielle® of Dunkirk basin in paper format 90x120cm
The Toile Maker® in digital format by the Possibilizzeurs