4 reasons make the Gennevilliers container terminal an absolute must as the Paris area platform:

1. their role in the development of container traffic in the Paris area has secured steady traffics
   
2. their situation in a dense economic area between La Défense and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
   
3. their key position at the junction between 2 river gauges : the gauge connecting Paris to the sea ports and the gauge required to cross Paris in order to connect the terminals of the Seine upstream, of the Marne and the Yonne rivers.
   
4. their role as a central platform will increase as a result of the current terminal enlargement.