Since then Provence, land of exchange and trade, remarkably located at the crossing of maritime surfaceand air routes, has always contributed to the development of logistic know-how. Your place, naturally, is here.

Air transport: Marseille Provence International Airport: over 7 millions passengers per year to France and Europe main cities ; 2d French for freight, after Paris, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Inland waterways: 550 kms at european standard (4000 tons barges) from Marseille-Fos to Lyon and North of Dijon, via Rhône and Saône rivers, with several regular container lines.

Logistics are a key economic sector in Provence with over 3000 companies employing 32000 people, operating in all logistic activities:

Shipping lines (CMA CGM, Maersk, MSC, COSCO etc.Freight Forwarders (CEVA, Kuhne & Nagel, SDV etc.)Road haulers. Third Party Logisticians (3 PL’s, ND logistics, Katoen Natie, DHL Solutions...)Specialised engineering, building companies and investors developing Logistics Parks (Prologis, PRD, GSE...)Major companies building and operating their own warehouses. Over 1,000,000 sqm of warehouses built in the last 5 years.

At the center of the Mediterranean Arc between Spain and Italy (Barcelona 500kms, Genoa 400 kms by motorways)......Provence is the natural Crossroad of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean World, free of natural barriers in all directions......And is the only truly multimodal territory on the Mediterranean (sea, road, air, rail, inland waterways, pipelines, and telecommunications)......Serviced by world class infrastructures:

Maritime Transport: Port of Marseille-Fos (96 Million tons in 2008), fi rst French Port, fi rst Mediterranean port, linked to all major economic centres of the World.

Railroads: freight trains and dedicated block trains from Marseille-Fos to Northern France and Europe. TGV passenger trains from Marseille to Paris in 3 hours.Motorways and Roads: Provence is crisscrossed by major Motorways to all parts of France and Europe, Spain, South west France, Italy.

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SUISSE : 468 kms / 312 miles

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• The Provence Promotion economic development agency provides free and confi dential assistance to new business ventures as well as to French or foreign companies setting up in the region.

• Pre-setup support: General information and statistics on the Bouches-du-Rhône economy and region ; information on current legislation and regulations, etc.

• Support for funding: Support in assembling and fi nalizing funding applications and fundraising initiatives ;

• Support for recruitment: Assistance in staff recruitment

• Support in setting up offi ce: Assistance for fi nding business premises or development land

• Relocation support: Assistance for your employees as they move into a new environment

FOS DISTRIPORT developed by Port of Marseille - Fos on its own private land (180 ha), located less than a mile from the existing and projected (Fos 2XL new project operational in 2011) container terminals, both with rail link capacity; extension of 80 hectares projected for 2013. Over 300,000 sqm already built, 200,000 in project.

CLESUD 300 ha, over 600,000 sqm built nearly all occupied, located near Salon de Provence, 5 miles from the A7/ A8,/A54 motorway nexus to all directions. CLESUD is mainly dedicated to land based logistics (rail and road).

ECOPOLE in Saint Martin de Crau:Over 200 ha on the M54 Motorway, midway between A9 and A8, with over 400,000 sqms of warehouses.Warehouses handle goods both from maritime and land origin. A 140 ha extension is in project for 2011.

Training is available at all required levels of competence:- Warehouses operators, truck drivers, order processing, team leaders managers.- International trade: freight forwarding, custom agents, shipping agents, insurance expert, airlines agents…- Portuary operations: crane operators, maintenance staff, security staff, stevedoring etc.

Provence Universities deliver high level diplomas in international trade and logistics, supply chain management, IT systems applied to logistics.CRETLOG is a very active teaching, research and consultancy university department on management and strategic research applied to logistics. It is located in Aix en Provence, with 40 researchers and doctorate students working on macro and micro economics subjects, for public or private clients.

IT companies are also very active on logistic linked hardware (especially in the RFID fi eld, whose National Technical Center is located in Provence) and software, like GYPTIS for on-line solutions to operators (agents, freight forwarders, customs) in portuary goods processing.

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AFRIQUE DU NORDover 1510 calls / year

EST MEDITERRANEENover 700 calls / year

MOYEN-ORIENTover 700 calls / year

ASIEover 700 calls / year

AUSTRALIE-OCEANIEover 700 calls / year

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RHÔNE-SAÔNE RIVER TRANSPORT

Robert CREUS +33 (0)4 96 11 60 13 r.creus@provence-promotion.frwww.theprovencepartnership.com

Economic developpment agencyLes Docks -10 place Joliette BP 45607 - 13567 Marseille CEDEX 02 - FRANCE

Top quality infrastructure and conditions for business and networking.Few regions can offer as much as Provence can. Our region excels in technological, logistic and industrial business opportunities, with its world-class labor force, research facilities and renowned universities. Provence is a region where ideal living standards meet ideal business conditions. The Provence Partnership will give you the support your business needs to succeed and the support you need to make the most of everything this region has to offer.

There are many major international companies performing sizeable logistic operations in Provence, for their own business as ser v ice providers : EUROCOPTER, IKEA, LYONDELBASELL, CMA-CGM (HEAD OFFICE), ARCELOR MITTAL, COCA COLA, ALINEA, ID LOGISTICS, MICHELIN, DECATHLON, BOULANGER, CEVA, DHL SOLUTIONS, ND LOGISTICS, KUHNE & NAGEL, MAISON DU MONDE, OFFICE DEPOT, CASTORAMA, SCHENKER, UPS, INEOS, EXXON, ARKEMA, KATOEN NATIE…

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We have chosen this place because logistic wise, the south of France is in the middle of Europe, so that the product that is arriving is immediately available for the customers of our clients. So for us, this was the place to be. It is the place to be. And it will be the place to be in the future.