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Essential for supplying the island, freight activity recorded a decline limited to 13%, in the 1st trimester, at Roland Garros airport. 5,364 tonnes of goods were processed during the first three months of the year, compared to 6,183 tonnes over the same period in 2020. In January, exports (574 tonnes) had even progressed by 6,3% compared to January...

The directors of four French companies serving overseas territories (Air Austral, Air Caraibes, Corsair et French Bee) and ASL Airlines France, which serves Algeria, wrote on March 29 to the State Participation Agency to complain about the “strategy of massive growth at all costs of the company Air France”. According to Les Nouvelles de Mayotte, a...

The city of Saint-Denis is the winner of the “fertile neighborhoods” call for projects launched by the National Agency for Urban Renewal (Anru), for its project to create five allotment gardens in the heart of the Vauban districts, Butor and Bas de rue Maréchal Leclerc, within the scope of the Northeast Coast Urban Renewal Project (prunelle). Outre la multiplication...

En novembre dernier, le ministère de la Santé et des Solidarités lançait un appel à projets auprès des associations luttant contre la pauvreté, doté d’une enveloppe de 100 millions d’euros dont les deux tiers étaient réservés à des projets locaux. 80 projets ont été déposés à la Réunion et 21 ont été retenus. Ils se partageront une dotation de...

Hotels and restaurants in Reunion Island experienced a brief improvement in the health crisis from October 2020 to January 2021, according to INSEE. Over this period, restaurant turnover exceeds that of 2019 by 6%. It is slightly down in November due to the low number of tourists from outside the island., mais repart à la...

After the return of moderate attendance during the 2020-2021 southern summer holidays, passenger numbers collapsed again at Roland Garros airport in February and March. The restrictions imposed by the authorities to curb a new epidemic wave had the immediate consequence of a drop in traffic between Paris and Saint-Denis in February (-67%), qui s’est un...

La filière viande bovine réunionnaise a enregistré une progression de 11% de sa production en 2020 : 1 817 tonnes de carcasses de bovins ont été produites, contre 1 636 tonnes en 2019, selon une note de conjoncture Agreste du ministère de l’Agriculture. La courbe des abattages mensuels progresse depuis 2018, la hausse de 2020 étant plus marquée en...

Iédom published in March the latest figures on credit rates practiced in Reunion, which firstly show a rise in business loan rates in the 4th quarter of 2020, after several months of decline. Average interest rates increase between July and October 2020 for all types of business credit. Cette remontée...

The evolution of births and deaths in Reunion in 2020 is significantly different from that observed in France and in other overseas regions., underlines INSEE. On the island, births remained stable, while they decreased by 2,3% in mainland France. 13,160 children were born to mothers residing in Reunion, as much as in 2019. As for deaths,...

The quarterly survey carried out by Iédom among Reunionese business leaders confirmed a continuation of the economic recovery at the end of the year. The health situation was then under control locally, the island escaped a second confinement and the climate indicator continued to recover : at 98,8, it was close to its long-term average (100). La consommation des ménages...