Optimise your logistics by setting up in Hauts-de-France

Our region is a major logistics hub for all of Europe: with its strategic location and exceptional transport infrastructures, Hauts-de-France is an unbeatable site for goods in transit. Our location north of Paris allows easy circulation of staff and goods while optimising delivery time. And because you can choose from road, sea, rail, air and inland waterway transport options, you can optimise shipping costs and maintain full control of your logistics operations.

Strategic location in Europe

Hauts-de-France has an ideal location for managing logistics flows and every kind of transport. And our European DNA gives us a number of competitive advantages:

A strategic location at the heart of the golden triangle linking London, Brussels and Paris.
The only region in France that borders Greater Paris and also has sea access and an international border.
5 European capitals within a 300-km radius of Lille (half a day by truck)

Direct connections to the UK

Because we’re right on the English Channel, Hauts-de-France is a particularly strategic location for trade with Britain. Goods travelling to and from the UK by road, rail or sea must, by definition, cross our region.

Businesses can choose from two transport options:

Rail shuttle service with Eurotunnel Freight
Freight vessels carrying shipments between Calais-Dover and Calais-Tilbury

Multimodal freight benefits

Multimodal platforms are a powerful asset for regions handling logistics flows, since they offer an alternative to 100% road transport. Advantages include:

Guaranteed faster deliveries
Improved security for goods in transit
Optimised transport costs
Greater capacity than truck transport

While Hauts-de-France has many multimodal platforms, the largest is indisputably the Delta 3 hub in Dourges.

The Delta 3 multimodal platform

Delta 3 is the first and only European-scale trimodal platform, on a single site equipped with:

A terminal offering transhipment by rail, road and inland waterway
State-of-the-art warehouses

Together these make Delta 3 a nerve centre of Europe’s logistics network. It has the largest combined transport terminal in France outside the country’s main ports, and lies on one of Europe’s leading freight transport arteries.

While road transport is very cost-competitive, Delta 3’s top differentiator is its ability to consolidate shipments—channelling goods out of ports quickly and facilitating delivery to their final destination.