The Court of Auditors became interested for the first time in the Grand Port Maritime de la Réunion, Created in 2013.
His report, public rendering at the end of March, underlines "the positive dynamic of development" which results in the field of growth of traffic and financial result. The magistrates are still "difficulties in which the port will have to remedy : purchasing calls for being more professionalized ; environmental themes, already taken into account, can be further invested ; safety-security subjects will call, in the very short term, increased vigilance in the West port sector”. The Court of Auditors also points out the slowness of decisions to develop the rear port area, while saturation regularly threatens the platforms of the Eastern port. “The port must adapt and evolve, in order to solve an equation of which the rear port area is only one factor and into which enters, for a decisive part, the question of the scarcity of available land, adds the report. The port's reception capacities in terms of ship size are now reaching a limit, if the race for gigantism in which shipowners seem to be engaged were to continue. » The judges also believe that progress must be made in the area of human resources and the control of personnel expenses. If the court observes the satisfactory level of execution of the investment plans implemented, she warns “about the heaviness of the financing granted for the acquisition of the floating dock in progress and their lack of profitability : these investments will absolutely have to be balanced when the next operational start-up takes place.. It more immediately draws the port's attention to the need to ensure that its interests are respected when receiving this equipment.. »
