Multimodality Project Director, HAROPA Port
Pierre de Bellabre is a graduate of the Rennes Institut des Études Politiques and holds a Masters 2 degree in Transport & Mobility from the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and the Ecole d’Urbanisme in Paris. He has held the post of HAROPA PORT Multimodality Project Director since April 2024.
Pierre de BELLABRE began his career with the Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) rail infrastructure authority in 2011. Holding general responsibility for socioeconomic research, he was in charge of executing market studies and building traffic forecasting models for freight.
Pierre later transferred to world of consultancy on strategy and organisation, providing support to numerous actors in the transport sector, among them:
- port authorities, mainly for their multimodal goals and issues. He has assisted many ports, HAROPA PORT in particular, in consolidating rail flows with their hinterland;
- other infrastructure managers and transport operators, helping them define their development strategies, investment pathways, reorganisation projects and pricing strategies;
- organising authorities for the negotiation of contracts with transport operators.
Pierre de Bellabre can also point to professional experience in engineering services and he has worked with major industrial firms in the rail sector, providing support for their engineering and R&D programmes, especially in the rail signalling domain.
Pierre has been with HAROPA PORT since April 2024 in the post of Multimodal Project Director. As such, he is charged with defining HAROPA PORT’s multimodal strategy and overseeing its implementation. This covers rail, river and road issues and the facilitation of goods throughput across the whole of HAROPA PORT.
He is answerable to Deputy CEO Antoine Berbain who heads the Paris regional office and multimodality.
