Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brest

 

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brest, a founding partner of the Brest maritime festivals since the first edition in 1992, is along with the French Navy a major maritime stakeholder of the Brest urban area.

The gathering of boats and the port festival occupy most of Brest's commercial port, a facility it has managed since it was created in 1881.
A major national port with its two components – merchant traffic and ship repairs-, the 9^th largest port of France against these two yardsticks is above all a place of work. In this context, the CCI acts as an interface with the port's professionals to reconcile everyone's constraints and sometimes contradictory wishes...
In addition to financial support, it puts many port facilities at the disposal of the Tonnerres de Brest and mobilizes its personnel: crane operators, "forms et quays" service personnel, mechanics, electricians…they all work to facilitate the organization of the festival.
Festival attendance (several hundred thousand visitors are expected) and its high media international coverage with 800 journalists have significant economic and tourist knock-on effects for the region. To sum up, the success of the maritime festivals can in part be put down to the quality of the organization, the quality of the maritime and cultural programme,  not forgetting the involvement of some 300 businesses from Finistère, without which the chartered boats would not be here.
To show the dynamism of the western tip to advantage, the CCI will organize economic and cultural events in 2012.
www.cci-brest.fr