LGV Méditerranée line, is located north-east of the city centre, in the commune of Alixan. Prior to its opening in 2001, the high speed TGV trains stopped in Valence-Ville railway station. Trains reached Paris in 2 hours 36 minutes. At the opening of the TGV station, a service of fifty TGVs per day was planned with eight of these TGVs continuing to serve Valence-Ville. Valence TGV station rail connections regularly connect to 35 cities, including Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Nice, Montpellier, Nantes, Le Havre, Reims, Avignon, Besançon, Strasbourg, Dijon, Barcelona and Brussels. In 2003, 60 daily TGVs served the station, with 1.8 million passengers. In 2008, the station was served by 58 daily TGVs, carrying 2.2 million passengers. Inland waterway The contains 478 berths: It is the first river port of France. Built in 1973, at the initiative of the (CCI of Drôme), around a pool of , it is included in a leisure park of . The quality of the services offered allowed it to obtain the blue flag of Europe, in 2005. Created in 1978 and operated by the , the in the Drôme (more often called Port of Valence) is located for its part, on the territory of the commune of Portes-lès-Valence, just to the south of the city of Valence. It spread over and has in addition to the port itself, an industrial zone with of area of warehouses, including customs, a grain terminal, a 'wood' centre, and the storage sheds ( all products). Its strategic location on the Rhône (in the heart of the Rhône-Alpes region, close to Isère, Savoy and Switzerland) allows it to serve the countries of the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East. As of July 2013, the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) began a campaign of work, with a cost of €14 million, to develop the port to make it a place of exchange at the European level. Air Valence-Chabeuil Airport, located in the commune of Chabeuil, is co-managed by the and the Chamber of commerce and industry of Drôme. It is open to commercial national traffic, to private aircraft, using IFR and VFR but welcomes more regular routes since the decision of the Valence-Paris service, which has run since 1969. The airport has three runways: one of in concrete, and two smaller, and . The terminal has two gateways for access to aircraft. The aircraft parking area is .