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In a hyper-competitive logistics sector, there is a fine line between acceptable performance and excellence. Wallonia has all the assets you need to strive for excellence. You will be operational in no time Foreign investors can avail of the Wallonia Trade & Invest Agency (AWEX) to accelerate their set-up in Wallonia. Its specialists will build your project from the reflection phase, develop with you a solution that meets your needs and identify your future strategic partners. Once your business case has been built, AWEX activates the financing levers if necessary, by putting you in contact with risk capital for example.
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Wallonia has planned measures that save precious time for investors: a single permit covers both planning permission and the environmental permit, you get several investment grants based on a single file, and AWEX facilitates contacts with customs and tax services. AWEX can also designate a project leader to negotiate the purchase of land or organise recruitment.
Ten days later, we decided to establish our new branch there. The whole airport community operated like clockwork to make our work easier: we obtained our license on 28 October and welcomed our first client on 4 November. In just three months - with the summer holidays right in the middle - we managed to open a brand new agency in a new country. It’s absolutely incredible: such a process would take at least 18 months in some other European countries!” Your CapEx and OpEx costs are lower Wallonia earmarks a large area of land for the development of new logistics activities. Land suitable for logistics is sold at competitive prices, without excessive speculation. This affects warehouse rental rates. Wallonia, Belgium and Europe have
also implemented measures that further reduce the initial cost of investment: • once its investment programme has been completed, a business can benefit from financial aid of up to 4 to 18% from the Region. The amount of this aid varies according to the size of the business, the area in which it is located, the volume of jobs created and the sector of activity. • in four free zones, businesses are exempt for two years from paying withholding tax (25%) for any new job created following an investment. In the development zones, it is possible to recover up to 30% of your investment depending on the zone in which you invest and the number of jobs created.
WAREHOUSE RENTAL PRICES Let’s hear from Cacesa Cacesa is a Spanish air freight forwarder, a subsidiary of the IAG group. Cacesa specialises in e-commerce flows between China and Europe and in cross-border flows between China and Latin America.
Rodrigo Peňas “My first contact with AWEX was at the end of June 2019, and I came to Liège for the first time on 5 July.
PRIX D’ENTREPÔTS EN LOCATION Wallonia Wallonie
€ 46/m2/year max.
Antwerp/Brussels Anvers / Bruxelles
€ 55/m2/year max.
The Netherlands Pays-Bas
€ 85/m2/year max.
NRW (Germany): NRW (Allemagne)
€ 65/m2/year max.
46 €/m2/an max.
55 €/m2/an max.
85 €/m2/an max.
65 €/m2/an max.
Prime Rent, Q3/2019. Source: JLL/Colliers
