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 A EUROPEAN INFLUENCE
Nantes Métropole provides businesses with high-performance communications infrastructures. Quick access to Paris and its region and connections to the main cities in Europe are assets that will ensure the development of your business.
The TGV
Thanks to the TGV high speed train and its 23 links per day you can be in Paris in 2 hours and then connect quickly to the major decision-making centres in the Paris region. You can also take advantage of fast connections to Lille (3hrs 45), Lyons (4hrs 10), Brussels (4hrs 30) and London (5hrs 55).
An international airport
Reach out to France, Europe and beyond
From Nantes Atlantique, you can fly to:
Barcelona, London, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, Nottingham, Shannon, Marrakech, Tunis with regular direct flights,
Direct flights to 13 national destinations,
Paris (Roissy) with 4 return flights every day. … and worldwideNantes provides easy connection to the Roissy Charles de Gaulle worldwide hub: thanks to its 4 daily air links with Roissy and the Nantes-Roissy TGV line you can get straight into the airport in 2 hrs 50 minutes from the city centre (4 services/day). The world is at your feet: Roissy is the leading airport in Europe in terms of travel possibilities for passengers. A new European airport will soon be opening in Nantes
In order to deal with the regular increase in traffic and to have a European airport platform for Western France, a new airport platform will be created a few kilometres to the north of the urban area by 2012-2015. The future Nantes international airport will have the capacity to handle 9 million passengers per year. It will be connected by fast shuttle to the centre of the Nantes urban area. The Atlantic port
Located on Europe’s north Atlantic Front, Port Atlantique occupies a strategic location in relation to the distribution of maritime traffic. Northern Europe and the Western Peripheral Regions are responsible for the vast majority of European port activities. No. 1 port on the Atlantic front
4th largest port in France after Marseilles, Le Havre and Dunkirk
400 ports connected
34.4 million tonnes of traffic in 2006
Over 26 000 related jobs
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