Press pack

CITYSURFING
Press pack
Citysurfing, a concept
before being a company!
The concept is that of bringing rivers back to life in
the hearts of cities. Citysurfing provides developers
with turnkey solutions for bringing back their former
shine to riverbanks, making river areas places for
people to be and inventing inland navigation of the
future.
Christophe Gallineau,
Founder of Citysurfing
contents
> The Citysurfing company
> Description of services
> Key data
> 4 priority objectives for
‘Smart Floating Solutions®’
> Key Citysurfing projects
> Cluster dynamics
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The company
Citysurfing
The company Citysurfing is a French urban operator in the
river and port sector:
> Specialists in the development, management and governance of complex
projects in the river and port sector that require intelligent collaborative
engineering covering technical aspects, architecture and the financial,
statutory, legal, environmental, industrial, operational and marketing features
for completing exceptional innovative projects.
> Ship-owner & investor.
> Expert on river and port tourism.
• Registered share capital: €300 K
Registered Office: 98 avenue Kleber – Paris
• Start of activity: January 2014
• Shareholder and Founder: Christophe Gallineau
- Former Managing Director of the leading river tourism company
in Paris carrying 3.5 million passengers per year
- Referent and member of the Comité des Armateurs Fluviaux
(River Transport Committee), the Cluster Maritime Français,
the Communauté Portuaire de Paris, the Comité Régional
du Tourisme Ile de France and Paris Région Entreprises.
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Description of services
www.citysurfing.fr
Citysurfing has a range of services and immediately operational turnkey solutions
called ‘Smart Floating Solutions®’ handled in collaboration with Seine Design, the
floating architecture and naval design practice.
The range of customised solutions proposed is hinged around the 4 main floating
structures and service groups listed here:
GROUP 1
GROUP 2
Unusual urban accommodation
Mobility
Floating hotels, urban ‘huts’ and
guesthouses devoted to stimulating
life of the banks and developing river
navigation and tourism.
Passenger boats and river
shuttles for leisure purposes or
urban logistics.
GROUP 3
GROUP 4
‘Fixed or mobile’
entertainment facilities
R&D
Floating cafés with dance floors,
theatre, floating gallery.
Motorised or non-motorised
floating structures ‘made to
measure’.
UNUSUAL URBAN ACCOMODATION
MOBILITY
‘FIXED OR MOBILE’ ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES
R&D
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Description of services
www.citysurfing.fr
A ‘project’ company is set up for each initiative to handle the legal and
financial basis of the project. The ‘project’ company is formed with the project
stakeholders and positioned at the heart of the ecosystem.
Implementation of the project is performed using project team dynamics to
mobilise collective initiatives, design solutions to match requirements and to
select and federate the best talent for making a success of the initiatives:
> definition and positioning of the products to be marketed,
> performing budgetary and environmental sustainability studies that are
coherent with the French energy transition law,
> setting the right level of investment to be made,
> raising the capital and bank loans required,
> designing and then constructing the customised infrastructure and the
industrialisation logistics plans to ensure successful completion and putting
into service,
> definition of operations plans and the marketing and sales plans to enable
responsible, high-quality operation for the sustainable assurance of the
performance of the economic model.
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Key data
> Length of project performance: 36 to 42 months
>Investment: €4 million to €35 million
> Local industrial and urban logistics sector
> Job creation
• Design and construction phase: 200 persons involved for 18 months – style,
process and performance Made In France
• Operational phase: 30 to 80 permanent jobs created for the sustainable
operation of the future activity
> Clients or partners:
urban authorities, ports, managers of the public domain, tour operators and
hoteliers, industrialists, regional authorities for collaborative dynamics and
open innovation, Olympic Games organisation committee, etc.
> Budget for design and budget sustainability:
€50,000 to €300,000 before the start of the project
> Project operation phase:
Normal running:
• 365 days a year
• 10 to 24 hours operation per day
• Annual sales of €4 million to €30 million for each project developed
• Generating fees for the occupation of the public domain together with VAT
> 3 options for the economic model:
• the user finances the service,
• or a private & public financing,
• or public financing
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Four priority objectives for
‘Smart Floating Solutions®’
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2
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Provide a response to the needs of large cities
> Their reflections are identical today
> The complexities of implementation are identical for elected officials
Offer new atypical services in activities and services
that are coherent with and at the service of the development of river and
port activities
Contribute to activities
attractiveness and the reputation of the ecosystems and areas concerned by
using rivers, bays, lakes, lagoons, ports, etc.
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Contribute to the well-being of the population
Fight pollution, rethink functioning and propose new models and alternatives.
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Key Citysurfing
projects
Each project is accessible to the public and provides new services and activities to
make the experience and pleasure of being on the water more amusing, of better
quality, more frequent and open to all.
A Citysurfing project responds to a need of general strategic interest for an
area or an ecosystem, linked directly with the waterway, with activity in boats
and/or generating a boating activity during its construction, operation and life.
Experts passionate about boats and rivers, boat operators and industrialists
specialised in the river and port sector design solutions for responding to needs.
The solution comes from the
river and is built using the solutions
proposed by rivers and ports in
terms of logistics, industrialisation
and technical know-how.
The Seine Valley, with its various
zones and expertise, is in the
heart of the process of design,
implementation,
delivery
and
development.
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The dynamics of the
Citysurfing Cluster
Christophe Gallineau, founder and CEO of Citysurfing and Gérard Ronzatti, architect and
founder of Seine Design, have been specialised in the river and port sector for more than 30
years and run the Citysurfing cluster.
This is an organisation and action method suited to the features of river and port
structures to simplify the process of initiatives leading to the creation of companies, jobs
and new services was devised by Citysurfing in collaboration with the naval architecture and
engineering practice Seine Design. It is for mastering the organisation of all the stages of
implementation of a response to a requirement.
The ‘Eco-Friendly Floating Structures®’ (E2FS) method of organisation and action
ensures the choice of the best talents to respond to the issues of economic models specific to
naval architecture and the creation of new floating units—motorised or not:
> to invent the river tourism of the future,
> to make accessible the opportunity to be on the water and sail in the city,
> to propose innovations and new alternatives to contribute to well-being in cities and to the
development of river and port navigation.
Seine Design and Citysurfing incarnate and own the intellectual property rights of ‘Smart
Floating Solutions®’ and the legitimacy and expertise of the method of E2FS ‘Eco-Friendly
Floating Structures®’ organisation and actions.
They manage a cluster of talent that is passionate about the river and port sector
(artists, financiers, industrialists, operators, legal specialists, entrepreneurs, citizens).
This community operates with agility and can mobilise the best skills
at the right moment and at the right price to ensure an organisation at
the service of extremely rapid, precise and high-quality action.
Christophe Gallineau and Gérard Ronzatti have experience of numerous
initiatives and actions in the governance and development of
activities and businesses in the river and port sector, such as the recent
creation of the first Floating Hotel in Paris, the first panoramic restaurant
boat in New York, the first ‘Guinguette’ café at Port des Invalides, the first
testing of public river transport on the Seine, etc.
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The dynamics of the
Citysurfing Cluster
All these operations performed by Citysurfing and Seine Design have
been performed:
>● using the ‘project team’ approach in collaboration with elected officials,
industrialists, investors, operators, banks and port and regulatory authorities;
> via local execution sector dynamics using the trades know-how of the places
concerned (Paris, New York, Dubai, London) by federating the best talent—
small local businesses—leading to the creation of sustainable jobs in running
the activities;
>● and are now databases and experience to be shared and passed on to meet
requirements.
For centuries,
rivers were a key to life!
Most cities are built around a lake, on the coast or along a river: London and the Thames, Paris and
the Seine, Lyon and the Rhône, Bordeaux and the Garonne, etc. Water was a key to life! Water
for drinking, for industry, for cleaning, for growing crops and for bathing. Cities took shape and
developed around water.
Then cities abandoned their rivers and have turned their backs to them for half a century.
Quays became industrial areas and roads were made along the banks. Waterways served for the
transport of goods.
Now, for the last 10 or 20 years cities have been rediscovering their banks and taking over theses
natural resources, using and protecting them.
We turn roads into beaches, we improve industrial dockland and make it a smart area, and
we live on the water once again through tourism or waterside activities.
Life takes over again and the city becomes recentred on its water, its heart, with more and more
projects emerging to make rivers places for living and for leisure.
‘Smart Floating Solutions®’ is Christophe Gallineau and Gérard Ronzatti’s idea: use rivers, banks and
ports in new architecture and turnkey floating infrastructure to match the issues of the great cities of
the world in questions of development, liveliness and entertainment and navigation activities.
Their ambition is green growth.
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Rethink the way
we live, entertain, travel and have fun
In short, reinvent the life of rivers with Smart Cities programmes, vectors of
fluidity, progress, attractiveness, well-being and knowing how to live together.
Entrepreneurial dynamics was this initiated by Christophe Gallineau in mid-2013 in
collaboration with Gérard Ronzatti, architect and founder of Seine Design, a specialist in
naval architecture and floating engineering.
Christophe Gallineau set up the company Citysurfing in summer 2013 to promote
‘Smart Floating Solutions®’, a pure product of Parisian know-how in river and port
tourism: PARIS, the world leader in river and port tourism.
‘Smart Floating Solutions®’ apply to all towns crossed by a river or sited in a bay
—this means more than half of the cities with a population of more than 500,000.
For elected politicians, ‘Smart Floating Solutions®’ have the advantage of shifting
immediately operational levers to support the economic, social, industrial and cultural
activities of an area.
The benefits at the scale of a territory:
> creating enthusiasm and collective initiatives
> generating smiles, emotions and social bonding
> accelerating influence and attractiveness.
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Contact :
Christophe Gallineau
Tel.: +33 (0)6 83 13 93 84
E-mail : [email protected]
www.citysurfing.fr
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