"LA FRANCE" project is ...

• A Regional, a National and a European project
  

• A French registered vessel home ported in a French port
  

• 90 crew and cadets under training
  

• 1,200,000 man-hours for the building phase
  

• 250 jobs in the Assembly Yard, not including work
  contracted elsewhere

• An estimated 450,000 visitors a year at the Assembly Yard
  

• A land-based Maritime Academy for professional training, and which will also be open to the public.
  

• The creation of a national partnership with the Higher Schools of Commerce.
  

• The mobilization of each Region of France for its share of the Project.
  

• The synergy of the country's industrial base and of small and medium enterprises.
  

• Social and human training and re-insertion.
  

• The proof that Cultural Heritage has real economic spin-offs.
  

• A budget of 500 million French Francs.
  

• 500,000 people agreeing to participate in the Project by providing 200 tax-deductible Francs per year for 5 years.