Port Lympia - Port de Nice

The port of Nice is also called port Lympia. This name comes from the source Lympia that fed a small lake in a swampy area which was begun in 1745 the work of the port. He is currently the largest port facility in Nice - there is also a small port in the Carras district.

The port of Nice is the first port cement manufacturer in France in connection with the treatment plants pebbles Valley Paillon.

A spectrum ranging fishing remains, but the number of professional fishermen is now less than 10.

Nice being the point of continental France nearest to Corsica, the connections with the island have grown with the arrival of NGV or high-speed vessels. Two companies provide connections: SNCM, a partially public company Corsica Ferries - Sardinia Ferries, an entirely private company.
In front of the port, the place was renamed Cassini place on the Island of Beauty.

The port of Nice is managed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Côte d'Azur that has had to restrict its plans to extend the port (to make it a cruise port in particular) because of a bad motorway access. It was also thought to put these extensions in Saint-Laurent-du-Var at the mouth of the Var near Nice airport, but instead serves as a nature reserve in various species of birds that come to nest.

A mysterious wave of 16 hours has been reported since 1992 in different parts of the coast without being able to formally see the cause in the wake of NGV.