World-class infrastructure
Air
Paris-Charles de Gaulle
#1 European airport for cargo
#2 for passengers
Le Bourget
#1 business
airport
in Europe
Eurostat, 2021
#2 country in the world
for the environmental impact of energy infrastructure
WEF, The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017
#1 country in the world
for the quality and availability of and access to electricity
Choiseul Energy Index, 2016
€0.0812 VAT incl. / MWh
A competitive price for electricity for industrial use
(mid-size industrial companies consuming between 500 and 12,000 MWh, in the first half of 2019)
Eurostat, 2020
France boasts Europe’s second largest rail network
nearly 30,000 km (over 18,000 miles)
Eurostat, 2021
#7 country in the world
for the quality of its rail infrastructure
The Global Competitiveness Report 2018
TGV
Over 300 km/h cruising speed
SNCF
Europe’s #1 road network
1,091,075 km of roads (excluding the overseas departments) and 1,104,127 km for the whole of France
11,600 km of motorways (third largest network in Europe)
Eurostat, 2020
Maritime
2 French ports
among the top 10 European ports by tonage
Marseille (6th) et Le Havre (8th)
Eurostat, 2020
Joint venture port complex between
the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, re-elected
“Best European Port”
in 2019
Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Awards (AFLAS)
#10 in the world
in terms of connection and quality of infrastructure as well as density and efficiency of the rail service
WEF – The Global Competitiveness Report, 2019