Navibus: a second line opens, after 700,000 passengers to Trentemoult in 2019

On 11 February 2020 the new Navibus line N2 was inaugurated between the Hangar à bananes, on the Île de Nantes, and Bas-Chantenay. The boat “Heb Ken”, 20 metres long, carries 140 passengers and ten bicycles; the crossing takes six minutes, with a departure every twenty minutes. The article notes that the first line, between the Gare maritime and Trentemoult, recorded 700,000 passengers in 2019: a success that encouraged the Métropole to develop further river links. N2 also recalls the history of the roquios, the ferrymen who linked the two banks of the Loire until the mid-twentieth century.