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Today’s consumption patterns present a new challenge: deliver in less than a week, and sometimes within 24 hours. If you’re in the logistics industry—a transport provider, a logistics company, a 3PL provider or a retailer with your own logistics operations—you know that you need to be in the heart of your market. In today’s industry, growing your business means finding the best location for your facility, from traditional warehouses to cross-docks.
Europe offers a few highly competitive locations with unparalleled geographic advantages. And Haut-de-France is one of them. Europe’s most densely populated region lies within a 300-km radius of Lille.
Stay close to your customers and optimize your freight transport by putting your business in the heart of Europe’s leading consumer market.
Want proof that Hauts-de-France is home to a major logistics sector? Look at the concentration of players here—from generalists like DHL, UPS, and FedEx to specialists such as Conhexa, Transgourmet and DailyFresh.
Road transport is still extremely popular with the logistics industry, and our outstanding highway system gives you direct access to major European corridors.
Our rail network is equally impressive, and trains are a particularly good choice if you need to transport large quantities of freight over long distances.
Hauts-de-France:
Hauts-de-France is home to domestic ports in Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer, and we’re the only region in France with easy access to Europe’s leading sea ports—Le Havre, Antwerp and Rotterdam.
And they’re all easy to reach, thanks to our infrastructure and logistics solutions. With so many maritime transport options, you’re sure to find the capacity you need to bring imports in and distribute exports anywhere in the world.
The fast-growing green logistics sector is highly favorable to growth in inland waterway traffic. And with 1,035 km of navigable waterways, Hauts-de-France accounts for 10% of the nation’s navigable network and 19% of its broad-gauge network.
Development of the Seine-Nord Europe canal will link Le Havre to Dunkerque, maximizing trade and business opportunities.
To meet today’s challenging delivery deadlines, your business needs both centralized distribution centers and cross docks near your consumer markets. Hauts-de-France has everything you need for optimum product distribution—in Europe and around the world.
E-commerce has turned the logistics industry. From pallets to parcels, the entire sector has diversified, bringing fundamental change to the market. Once viewed as a cost center, logistics is now seen as a vital selling point for online retailers.
Keeping pace with these changes requires:
Hauts-de-France was the birthplace of distance selling, and its retail expertise made it fertile ground for the growth of e-commerce. Leading players in the region—including La Redoute, 3 Suisses and Damart—easily went digital on a massive scale, thanks to the service providers and logistics infrastructures who sped their transformation, creating an ecosystem that has attracted many international contenders.
Prominent retailers and a wide range of pure players have made the strategic choice to locate their European distribution centers in the region.
Facing new delivery challenges? In Hauts-de-France, there’s always a solution. Ship via drone, truck, train, barge and more, depending on your volume. Match your transport to your need:
Today’s brands are under increasing pressure from consumers to build ecodesign into their products and to make shipping as green and flexible as it can be.
Hauts-de-France can help you meet this challenge. In our region, you have real choices when you’re ready to ship. We look beyond road transport to alternative solutions including inland waterways, rail and clean vehicles. Today more and more companies are making the “modal shift”, rethinking their transport choices to make shipping more eco-friendly—and more efficient, too.
Hauts-de-France is home to many French and international 3PL companies ready to meet your transport needs.
Consider these two specialized multimodal sites with high added value.
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Did you know that the Häagen-Dazs ice cream enjoyed on the sun-drenched beaches of Rio de Janeiro is made in Hauts-de-France? Our region is an agrifood powerhouse, with everything you need for optimized distribution of your products across Europe and around the globe. Just ask the agrifood giants that have located both production plants and distribution sites in Hauts-de-France.
Many agrifood players have opted to set up their European and global logistics hubs near their production sites in Hauts-de-France:
Do you want to develop your own logstics hub?
Hauts-de-France has 13 million sq m of warehouse space—16% of the French total—including:
In Hauts-de-France, you’ll also find a wide range of land options in industrial parks designed for growing logistics hubs.
Dunkerque’s large sea port—GDPM—has links to destinations around the globe, with priority service between Asia and Northern Europe. It has also developed short-sea routes to ports in Northern Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean.
The Port of Dunkirk is the 1st seafood processing port in France, with more than 380,000 tons of processed products per year.
This port located in Hauts-de-France benefits from a unique infrastructure in Europe in terms of logistics for seafood products. It includes:
We’re here to help you. Thanks to our knowledge of local authorities, we can obtain permits in record time, such as building permits and environmental permits (ex-ICPE).
Nord France Invest’s support of Picnic enabled them to benefit from an optimized timetable:
December 2020
Decision to set up in France
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April 2021
Picnic settles in warehouses in Fretin and Valenciennes
2
June 2021
Start of tests
3
September 2021
Official opening
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In 2019, demand for logistics real estate in France was particularly concentrated in the Hauts-de-France region. The region accounts for 23% of demand in France.
The Hauts-de-France region has 13 million sq m of warehouse space, or 16% of total availability in France, including :
18805 m²
Logistics Building – LSM
Longueil-Sainte-Marie 
2025 
12000 to 55113 m²
Logistics Warehouse E Valley Building C
Cambrai
Immediately 
3000 to 20000 m²
Logistics park for rent
Hordain
2023 
4000 to 13000 m²
Logistics warehouse – Amiens (Industrial Zone)
Amiens
2024 
12000 to 31950 m²
Logistics warehouse – Calais Turquerie mixed development zone
Calais
2026 
150 to 300 m²
CSE LOG
Outreau
Immediately 
25552 m²
Former ITM logistics platform
Vimy
2024 
44703 m²
Industrial / Logistics buildings – Allonne
Beauvais / Allonne
T1 2024 
25000 to 100000 m²
New logistics site or heavy industry
Denain
2023 
12000 to 36967 m²
V-Park 1 building – Logistics/industrial park
Bully-les-Mines
2023 
8455 m²
V-Park 3 building – Logistics/industrial park
Bully-les-Mines
2025 
10648 to 22513 m²
Ablaincourt Building 2
Ablaincourt-Pressoir
Immediately 
11945 to 37866 m²
Ablaincourt Building1
Ablaincourt-Pressoir
Immediately The Hauts-de-France region is on average 28% less expensive than the average of our European competitors for logistics warehouses. According to CBRE Research, headline rental values in the region ranged from €40 to €54 excl. tax/sq.m/year (excluding charges, depending on location and service).1
1CBRE Research, T4 2023
40,000m² HQE logistics warehouse
Hauts-de-France is the youngest region in France, with 33% of the population under 25 and a pool of more than 70,000 jobseekers in the logistics industry alone. (French National Job Center, 2023).
We’re home to many institutions of higher education and research that offer vocational training to meet your labor needs:
Indication of loaded salaries in Hauts-de-France (Source: EY/NFI 2020)
| Order picker | Team manager | Site director |
|---|---|---|
| €22,676 | €42,389 | €98,551 |
Euralogistic shares and promotes its logistics expertise throughout Hauts-de-France, bringing businesses, training programs and researchers together to work on innovative projects that make a difference.
Euralogistic borders on a major highway, a canal and a European-class rail hub, and features four buildings, all managed by Euralogistic:
Together, these facilities support businesses and step up the pace of growth in the Hauts-de-France logistics industry.
The Euralogistic Campus is the only facility of its kind in France. Its primary goals are to meet demand for qualified labor and promote future job profiles for the region’s logistics industry.
In all, this facility trains nearly 2,500 people a year, in programs ranging from vocational credentials to masters degrees. Euralogistic Campus gives participants the skills they need to become materials handlers, logistics technicians, team leaders and more, using a 5,000-sq m, 14-m clear-height Class-A training warehouse that teaches students to meet real-life challenges.
