A 1,300 m² barge will be built to transport 3,000 parcels per day on the Seine, between the Post Office sites in the Paris region, in order to save time and reduce pollution.
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La Poste announced on Tuesday, September 24, to franceinfo its plan to deliver parcels via a gigantic river barge on the Seine from 2026. The goal is to save time, decongest traffic, and reduce its carbon footprint. This 1,300 m² barge must transport 3,000 parcels daily between the Colissimo sorting center in Gennevilliers and the distribution center in Boulogne-Billancourt, in Hauts-de-Seine) instead of around twenty vans and electric cars used each day.
The packages will travel two and a half hours between Gennevilliers and the port of Boulogne. 24 kilometers during which they will be sorted on the barge and then delivered to their recipient by cargo bike. If this experiment is conclusive, La Poste will duplicate the initiative in other cities. The barge, whose construction is due to begin this fall, should be operational in early 2026.
La Poste has also been experimenting with parcel delivery by tram since September 11 in Strasbourg. It uses line B of the network during off-peak hours, again to save time and reduce pollution. La Poste is focusing on parcel delivery to cope with the drop in mail, the delivery of which has been divided by three in ten years with 6 billion letters sent per year compared to 18 billion previously.