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The government has released an envelope of 2 million euros to finance the creation of a gymnasium in the Chaudron district, in Saint-Denis. The sum, which represents almost two thirds of the total amount of the investment (3,1 million euros), comes from the Exceptional Investment Fund, mis en place en 2009 dans le cadre de la Lodéom pour soutenir les projets...

La Réunion a accueilli seulement 216 716 touristes en 2020, soit 59,4% de moins par rapport à 2019, selon Île de la Réunion Tourisme. Un retour en arrière de trois décennies ! Après un début d’année satisfaisant et une progression en janvier et février, la fréquentation touristique extérieure est tombée à zéro pendant le confinement, pour ne reprendre que...

The Grand Port Maritime de la Réunion achieved a turnover of 49 million euros in 2020, impacted by the health crisis in the same proportions as traffic, which fell by 4%. During the supervisory board meeting on March 11, the multi-annual investment programming for 2021-2023 has been revised to take into account...

Le câble sous-marin METISS (Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System) est entré en service le 5 mars dernier. D’une longueur de 3 200 kilomètres, il relie l’île Maurice, la Réunion et Madagascar (Fort-Dauphin) aux côtes sud-africaines, au niveau de Durban. Créé en juillet 2016 pour les besoins spécifiques de ce nouveau câble, le consortium METISS regroupe six opérateurs de la zone...

The Réunion Region officially took possession of the 5,400 meter viaduct linking Saint-Denis to Grande-Chaloupe on March 30. Even if the conciliation procedures are far from being completed between the project owner and the group of companies led by Vinci, which requires several hundred euros to add to the initial envelope (716 million euros), une étape symbolique est...

The Corsair company will open its Lyon-Marseille-Réunion line on June 21, twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from mainland France. These flights departing from the province will be scheduled at times that facilitate connections, at Roland-Garros airport, for passengers to and from Mayotte. They will be operated by Airbus A330-900neo, whose....

Air Austral announced at the end of March the scheduling of a series of one-off direct flights between Mayotte and Marseille for the entire school holiday period of July-August 2021. Two rotations will be operated each week between June 17 and September 12, Thursday and Sunday, with a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. In the Dzaoudzi-Marseille direction, the flights will....

Le Syndicat mixte de Pierrefonds et la Région Réunion ont signé le 6 mars une convention-cadre portant sur un ambitieux programme d'investissements : 83 million euros in six years to get the southern airport off the ground again, at a standstill since the start of the health crisis. The most important envelope (41,5 millions) sera consacrée à l’allongement de la piste sur 300 mètres...

Reunionese companies in the commercial sector have created an added value of 7,5 billion euros in 2018, for a turnover of 26 billion, according to the latest figures from INSEE. Over a year, this overall added value has increased slightly, of 74 million euros (1%). Elle n’a augmenté que pour la moitié des entreprises déjà existantes et baissé de...

Over the period 2016-2018, women gave birth on average 1,89 enfant, according to the latest INSEE national study on fertility. This overall fertility indicator, overall decline, is however higher in Overseas, Martinique excepted (1,83 children per woman). It reaches 1,99 in Guadeloupe, 2,38 in Reunion, 3,77 in Guyana and 4,92...