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Transport and logistics
           Aveyron, a new territory for logistics is coming up
The opening of the Millau Viaduct to road traffic on 17th december 2004 represents a major event. not only it is an ambitious and unique technological achievement - it is the highest land viaduct in the world -, but also because it changes in a fundamental way the configuration of logistic flows on the scale of the european continent.

 Some performance statistics

  • 670 companies (source : INSEE-SIRENE/2004), it makes of Aveyron the second one in Midi-Pyrénées for the number of companies.
  • 2600 employees (source : ASSEDIC au 01 01 05)
  • sales of over 265 million € (source : COFACE - chiffres affaires 2004)

The importance of the sector

Source : La lettre de l'ORT édition 2006
  • 55% of the transport/logistics companies practise road transport of goods. Per annum, more than 11 million tons of goods (average 2001 - 2004) are exchanged by the road.
  • The activity of road transport of passengers represents 1/3 of the sector's companies.
  • Auxiliaries of road transport (a lot of warehouses) represent less than 10% of the establishments of the sector but it's growing.
  • The importance of travel agencies in turnover of the sector is due to the presence of two large companies in Aveyron : VERDIE and the CLUB LANGUES ET CIVILISATIONS.

Companies of Aveyron

Leading companies of Aveyron (except the travel agencies) :

  • Transports GALTIER
  • Transport G. PORTAL
  • Transport CRANSAC
  • JEANJEAN / CLERGUE
  • Transport VALETTE
  • Transports BETEILLE
  • ROUSSET Transports
  • VERDIE Voyages
  • TRANSPORTS AUTOMOBILES RUTHENOIS
  • AVEYRON EXPRESS
  • COMPAGNIE EIFFAGE DU VIADUC DE MILLAU
  • COOPERATIVE BACH

A pro-active environment

 

Training

VOCATIONAL TRAINING QUALIFICATION/CERTIFICATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION : road driving, logistics and marketing

BAC + 2 (level baccalaureate + 2 years) : DUT quality, industrial logistics and organization

Others :

  • Training in the trades of logistics ensured for the whole departement by the AFT-IFTIM
  • Training related to travel trades (tourism manager, licence applied foreign languages).
 

Ressources

A training center have been created at Saint-Affrique in 2006 especially for the trades related to transport. It's the second one in Midi-Pyrénées. It offers a certificate of technical education « road driving ». A professional degree « Transport and logistics » will be proposed since 2010.
 
 Aveyron becomes a new territory for logistics
 
With the completion of the Millau Viaduct, the A75(E11) becomes a new road link and a logistic axis for the North South traffic in Europe.
 


This motorway represents, from now on, a real alternative to the A6/A7 :
  • it guarantees in all seasons, a light traffic,
  • it brings substantial profits in terms of driving time, of costs, as the table shows below:

    Paris-Perpignan A71/A75 - E 11 A6 / A7 / A9 - E 15
    Distance in km 850 925
    Driving time* 9h30 10h45
    Fuel (litres)* 205 226
    Cost (tolls…)* 100€20 124€90

    * For trucks weighting 12 ton. and over
 Aveyron possess many logistics qualities
 
Its geographical location, its transportation routes, make of Aveyron a relevant territory for setting up a logistic activity.


At the crossroad of the RN88 Aveyron stands in the central portion of the A75.
The 2 Zones of Departmental Activities are midway between Clermont-Ferrand and Montpellier, and also between Lyon and Toulouse.

  Distance Driving time1
Clermont-Ferrand2 195 km 2h10
Montpellier3 90 km 1h05
Toulouse2 195 km 3h00
Lyon2 290 km 4h20
  
1 For trucks weighting 12 ton. and over
2 From the Sévérac-le-Château ZAD
3 From the Millau-Larzac ZAD.
 
 Some essential ressources to the development of an effective logistic activity
   
  • An employment basin with a quality workforce which is available as shown by the Eifage experience - designer and builder of th Millau Viaduct.
  • Trainings in the trades of logistics, ensured for the whole departement by the AFT-IFTIM.
  • Skils, professionals able to ensure a great variety of services in the fiels of logistics and transportation.
 Aveyron, 2 sites offering advantages: Millau-Larzac and Sévérac-le-Château
 
Millau-Larzac and Sévérac-le-Château, located South and North of the Millau Viaduct constitute the South Massif-Central pole for logistics:
  • They have direct access to the A75 motorway.
  • They have complemantary activities and layout.
     
Millau-Larzac ZAD (South of the Millau Viaduct)
It is adapted to national and international projects, able to optimize North-South european traffic.

Location
The Zone d'Activités Départementale (Department Activity Zone) is located close by,
  • the South acces to the Millau Viaduct and can be reached from the A75
  • the town called "La Cavalerie"
  • The Millau-Larzac business airport

Distances
  • 15 min from Millau town center
  • 55 min from Montpellier
  • 1h10 from the international Montpellier-Méditerranée airport

Millau-Larzac is in the Millau employment basin (60 000 inhabitants).

The industrial activities located near the zone for logistic activities employ nowadays 250 people and mainly relate to the manufacturing of mobile homes, windows, bathroom units and precast concrete units.

A logistic platform (articles of interior design) of 18000 m² have been operational since july 2007. This activity employs 80 people.

Facilities and price
  • Land availability: 10 ha (2005), possible extension up to 100 ha
  • At the edge of the plot: water, electricity, gaz, main sewer
  • Telecommunications : ADSL, sheath for high speed broadband optic fibre (access to 20 Mo in 2008)
  • Price: 9 € HT/m2
  • Rate of the total Professional Tax: 28,952

Aids available
  • Zone PAT (Subsidy for regional development) Industry at raised rate
  • Objective 2
  • Classification into a ZRR (Zone de Revitalisation Rurale) (Zone of Rural Revitalization)
  • Exemption of Professional Tax for 5 years

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Sévérac-le-Château ZAD (North of the Millau Viaduct)
 It is adapted to medium size projects aiming at national and international projects, within the scope of splitting the traffic towards Toulouse and Montpellier.
Location
 The Zone d'Activités Départementale (Department Activity Zone) is located close by,
  • the North acces to the Millau Viaduct and can be reached from the A75
  • The town of Sévérac-le-Château
  • the crossroad between the A75 and the express way leading to the Rodez, Albi and Toulouse basins.
  • The Aveyron rest area (one of the largest motorway parking area in Europe offering many services)

Distances
  • 10 min to the Millau Viaduct
  • 15 min to Millau Town centre
  • 40 min to the town of Rodez
  • 45 min to the Rodez-Marcillac airport
  • 1h30 to the Montpellier-Méditerranée International airport

Sévérac is part of the Rodez employment basin (150 000 inhabitants).
The industrial activities nearby the logistics acivity zone provide jobs for 360 people and mainly related to furniture manufactures (ITA STEINER).

Facilities and price
  • Land availability: 10 ha (reserved area of 30ha)
  • At the edge of the plot: water, electricity, gaz, main sewer
  • Railroad junction: possible
  • Telecommunications : ADSL, sheath for an optic fibre for high speed broadband (access to 20 Mo in 2008)
  • Price: 9 € HT/m2
  • Rate of the total Professional Tax: 31,282

Aids available
  • Zone PAT ((Subsidy for regional development)) Tertiary
  • Objective 2
  • Classification into a ZRR (Zone de Revitalisation Rurale) (Zone of Rural Revitalization)
  • Exemption of Professional Tax for 5 years

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Carte et annuaire


Leading figures in the industry testify

M. DUNE
EIFAGGE
Building

 

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