Good news, a newsletter on the transport and logistics sector in Belgium!
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Niky Terzakis, Chairman Logistics in Wallonia and Managing Director TNT Airways |
This is the very first issue of the newsletter that Logistics in Wallonia is addressing to its audience of foreign investors, those interested in setting up in Wallonia, and to the Walloon companies interested in exporting. Your unique quarterly bulletin with news from Wallonia: the agenda, the main players talking to you about themselves and their experiences as well as an in-depth article on a subject close to your heart.
Today, choosing your next location in Europe. Read our special report.
Belgium,
the European distribution country
Going through the Cushman & Wakefield 2008 report with comments from the Office of Foreign Investors.
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Jef Van Doorslaer, Associate Cushmann & Wakefield |
According to the European Distribution Report 2008, Belgium has forged ahead of the Netherlands. What are its main assets?
“You have to be where the markets are.”
From Wallonia, 65% of markets can be reached within a day. “Location is of strategic importance”, explains Jef Van Doorslaer at C&W.
In Liege warehouse space costs between 22 and 40 euro/year per square metre.
In Antwerp that rises to between 37 and 47 euro. 5,000 hectares of additional space have just been allocated to industry in Wallonia, guaranteeing a further ten years of development with no risk of saturation.
Read what Jef Van Doorslaer thinks of Wallonia and the outcome of the OFI’s assignments.
From 27 to 29/01/2009
Networks as a source of economic development and competitiveness
The international conference will take place on the Sart Tilman Campus in Liege (Wallonia) and will be an opportunity for the academic, industrial and public milieus from all over the world to get together.
For more information and enrolments:
www.polesdecompetitivite.eu
Bierset by night?
A perfectly oiled machine
At night Bierset comes alive, transforming itself into a carefully orchestrated ballet of cargo planes and containers. On the ground, experienced employees are ready to leap into action. Their mission? To unload planes in record time and send goods on their way. Declaration by Thierry Liégeois, Night Operations Coordinator at TNT.
NewsAutumn 2008, Bierset welcomes Ethiopian Airlines and El Al CargoTwo major airlines coming in to land, TNT's European centre doubles its initial investment, 100 new jobs on top of 9,000 direct or indirect ones… |
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