Economic importance

7,900 people generating more than a billion euros in turnover. All the logistics “families” are represented in Calvados:

• Retail logistics
• Manufacturing logistics
• Logistics services (purchasing, assembly, grouping, picking and packing, etc.)
• Express deliveries

The thriving food industry has made Calvados a natural base for logistics businesses specializing in fresh and so-called “ultra fresh” food.

Major flows of merchandise

• Shipping
  
  

  Freight : daily cross-Channel ferry services to England (Caen-Ouistreham/Portsmouth). 2 companies : Brittany Ferries (2.8 million tonnes of merchandise per annum) and P&O

  
  
• Caen commercial port (11th french harbour, 3,6 millions tonnes in 2005) : Cereals, timber, fertilizer, scrap iron, foodstuffs, coal
   
• Honfleur commercial port : exotic woods
   
• Road haulage

• Air transport
  Caen-Carpiquet airport and Deauville Saint-Gatien

• Rail transport

Key players

ABX logistique, Bonafini, Chatel Transports, Groupe Malherbe, Groupe Normatrans, Noyon, TFE (groupe STEF), Transport Antoine, TNT Express, Transport Gringore, Groupe Malherbe, Eurologistic Letna, Vire Transports, Transport Lexoviens, CBM, Transports Godfroy, Norbert Dentressangles ...

Customized facilities

• 4 industrial estates within the Caen area included the industrial harbour estates along the River Orne
• The Honfleur-Calvados business park (near Le Havre’s Port 2000 )
• 200-hectare business park in Mézidon-Canon , at the planning stage.

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Training for jobs in logistics

Qualifications ranging from the CAP vocational certificate for warehouse and parcel delivery personnel to the technical diploma in logistics methods and operations, not forgetting the logistics and marketing certificate and the logistics baccalaureate. Courses run by approved training centres for forklift truck operators.

And a bachelor (international logistic services) at the école de Management de Normandie.

Continuing education in operating techniques, purchasing, computer-assisted inventory management, maintenance, management, etc.

To find out more , log onto www.transports-bassenormandie.com