Set up your international business in Eastern France (Grand Est Region)

Why set up your company in Eastern France?

The Eastern France with its outstanding accessibility and strategic location is an ideal host for your logistics business. Being the only French region with no less than four borders with Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg and Switzerland, the region is at the centre of the most important European markets. Today there are over 5 500 transport and logistics companies in the region, enabling future companies to enter a flourishing network. Unique in Europe : 
Of the 9TEN-freight corridors (Trans-European Transport Network), 4 of them go through Eastern France.

Key figures

•    57 433 km²
•    5,6 million inhabitants (8,6% of the French population
•    GDP of 152,2 billion € (6,9% of the national GDP
•    2 995 road freight transport companies in 2018
•    1,300 km of highways, 975 km of national roads on the north-south and east-west hub
•    2nd export region

Furthermore, Eastern France hosts 4 international airports with both freight and passenger flight services  including the Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport providing flight connections with almost a hundred of European cities both the Rhine river and the Moselle river two wide-gauge waterways link Eastern France to Antwerp and Rotterdam sea ports. They are also supplemented by the largest lower-gauge network in France.  Eastern France is also surrounded by 3 world class intercontinental airports ; Paris CDG, Frankfurt and Zürich

Well connected to Europe and to the world, Eastern France takes advantage of a large number of multimodal hubs providing efficient interconnection between all means of transport (road, rail, river, air). From loose goods to containers, including heavy packages, hazardous materials or temperature-controlled goods, all kinds of goods can be handled.

 
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