Optimise your air freight logistics by setting up in Hauts-de-France
Strategically located at the centre of Europe’s top 6 cargo hubs—Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Luxembourg—Hauts-de-France offers real opportunities to optimise your air freight operations.
Optimise your air freight logistics by setting up in Hauts-de-France
Strategically located at the centre of Europe’s top 6 cargo hubs—Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Luxembourg—Hauts-de-France offers real opportunities to optimise your air freight operations.
Roissy-Charles de Gaulle is Europe’s second busiest airport, and less than an hour from Lille by high-speed rail.
And if your business uses air freight, Lille-Lesquin regional airport is equipped with an overseas platform and a range of related services.
Major international airports within easy reach
Located in the heart of the London-Paris-Brussels triangle, Hauts-de-France offers easy access to major international airports in Europe.
- Paris/Roissy Charles de Gaulle: 0h50 from Lille
- Paris/Roissy Charles de Gaulle: 0h30 from the TGV Haute Picardie high-speed rail station
- Brussels airport: 1h15 from Lille
Regional airports
Lille-Lesquin airport
Lille-Lesquin airport is a stone’s throw from Greater Lille, allowing fast distribution and easy access for importers and exporters based in Hauts-de-France. It also offers powerful synergies with Lesquin’s Regional Transport Centre, a prime logistics hub in the region.
Fast facts — Lille-Lesquin overseas platform
of dedicated office space
tonnes of freight loaded/unloaded in 2019
of tarmac reserved for cargo—big enough to handle AN 124s, B 747s and more.
of dedicated warehouse space for air freight in transit
Overseas freight services at Lille-Lesquin
- Office buildings and warehouses
- Door-to-door supply chain & transport services, customs processing
- Air transport and import/export transport services for all continents. Express transport. Cargo charters.
- Logistics services and import/export handling
- Handling/processing of cargo and mixed flights
- Freight security
- Order-picking
- Just-in-time consolidation platform
- Packaging
- Equipment for heavy loads
- Pallet-building equipment
- Pyrometer temperature monitoring
- And more
Paris-Beauvais airport
Paris-Beauvais airport is 60km from Amiens and Compiègne, and 100 km from Paris. It is now France’s 10th largest airport for passenger traffic, with six airlines serving over 60 destinations in 20 countries. New lines are added regularly.
Rising passenger numbers
The number of travellers passing through the airport has risen steadily, from 78,000 in 1996 to 3,787,086 in 2018.
The number of flights has risen from 4,366 in 2001 to 22,960 in 2018.
The number of passengers per plane is up from 97 in 2001 to 165 in 2018.
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