Container catena, Contemporary art sculpture at Port district, Le Havre, France.

Container Catena consists of 36 shipping containers arranged to form two intersecting arches that rise to about 28.5 meters (93.5 feet). The structure sits near the harbor entrance and dominates the port district with its geometric presence.

Vincent Ganivet created the sculpture for the 500th anniversary of the port of Le Havre, and it was inaugurated on 27 May 2017. It was commissioned within the framework of the "Un été au Havre" festival, held annually since 2017, with support from Vinci Construction and its subsidiary GTM Normandie Centre. It stands on the quai Southampton near the Ireland terminal, on a lawn in a redeveloped area between port and city.

The name comes from the Latin catena, meaning chain: it refers both to the inverted catenary used in the construction and to the supply chain that ends at the port. Ganivet kept the containers' shipping-line colours but removed any company markings, and left the two doors at each end.

The artwork sits directly along the harbor promenade and is accessible from multiple sides. You can view and photograph it throughout the day and evening, with different angles revealing new perspectives.

The arches stand without supports, using the inverted catenary principle Antoni Gaudí applied at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona from 1882: the forces and tensions of a hanging chain hold the curve. The name Catene comes from the Latin catena, chain, pointing both to this principle and to the supply chain that ends at the port.