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The Québec City area, it’s simple Table of contents

Logistical Infrastructures

Why choose the Québec City area? 4 Highlights 7 Industrial and technology zones and parks 9 Marine transportation 10 Air transportation 16 Road transportation 18 Rail transportation 21 Main points of interest 23 Specialized companies in transportation and logistics 24 Our expertise in logistics 25 Outstanding outreach and assistance network 26 City of Québec of City Why choose the Québec City area?

Due to its strategic location, Québec City is an ideal gateway to North America and a preferred stepping stone towards Europe As a Canadian city, Québec City is part of 50 free trade agreements (FTAs), commercial partnerships and agreements, providing our businesses with incredible access to the global market. NAFTA and CETA alone cover half of the world’s production.

MONTRÉAL

OTTAWA

BOSTON TORONTO

NEW YORK DETROIT PHILADELPHIA

CHICAGO PITTSBURGHRGH WASHSHINGTON

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 4 Province of Québec 8.4 million inhabitants 2nd largest $319 B population Canada in the country GDP in 2016 14.3% growth 36.7 1.7 in 10 years million $1,678 B million km2 (2006-2016) inhabitants Largest GDP in 2016 Canadian province 17% growth in 10 10 years (2006-2016) million km2

The Québec City area 807, 211 Québec inhabitants City

2 3,349 km MONTRÉAL

OTTAWA $33.9 B GDP in 2016 18.1% growth in 10 years (2006-2016) BOSTON TORONTO e largest metropolitan NEW YORK 8 area in the DETROIT country PHILADELPHIA

CHICAGO PITTSBURGHRGH WASHSHINGTON

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 5 Major economic hub supported by strong industrial diversity Economy has been expanding for more than 20 years

Political, cultural and economic capital of the province

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 6 Highlights Lowest Access to a market with costs of more than electricity 1 billion (Québec is the global leader in hydroelectric power consumers production) thanks to our North

Hydro-Québec, 2016 American and European free trade agreements (NAFTA + CETA)

Some of the lowest 30 % rental costs of GDP in Canada in export

2thinknow, 2016 Groupe Altus et CB Richard Ellis, 2016 Attractive More than region 225 For many international international workers subsidiaries in the area

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 7 a well-connected region

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 8 Industrial and technology zones and parks Not only does Québec City offer businesses a wide range of spaces adapted to their industrial, technological and office space needs, it also offers a premium choice of locations. Here, we meet your needs.

Over 40 zones and parks in the Québec metropolitan region

industrial parks Technology parks Over More than totalling1 totalling close to 4 ,100 76,000 470M sq. ft. 30M sq. ft. companies jobs 11 meter = 3.3 feet

Several industrial Portneuf Charlevoix zones and parks Québec are also located City in the surrounding areas

Lotbinière Bellechasse

Nouvelle-Beauce

Sources: Québec City, Lévis City, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures City, Québec industrial parks Corporation, Innoparc, Côté Conseil Immobilier and Répertoire des parcs industriels du Québec, 2016

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Port of Québec

The Port of Québec is a gateway to the North American and Great Lakes markets, with more than 110 million consumers. Port of Québec of Port

The largest More than deep water port 1,000 ships (15 meters) per year before the Great Lakes that is accessible year-round North American hub for One of the top 5 solid and liquid bulk distribution Canadian ports 4 port areas More than 20 M 2 river ports metric tons transshipped annually 1 cruise terminal (80% increase over 10 years) More than Ability to hold 200,000 visitors Suezmax in 2017 and Capesize ships $1.35 G in economic impact for Canada

Source: Port of Québec, 2017

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 10 Beauport 2020 This expansion project for the Port of Québec includes: • Extension of the wharf line by 610 metres • Addition of two berths with a 16-metre depth at low tide • Creation of a storage and maintenance area behind the wharf covering 17.5 hectares In this new area, the Port of Québec intends to place a new deep-water container terminal. Fully intermodal, with direct access to major rail and highway networks, the Port of Québec is equipped to effectively serve the massive Great Lakes market.

$190 M investment

Port of Québec

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 11 the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 12 Québec-Lévis Industrial Port Zone (IP Zone) By 2020, Québec City will have an industrial port zone (IP Zone) that primarily encourages the development of manufacturing projects in the region. The development of land dedicated to industrial port activities will allow businesses to profit from a unique location and fully benefit from a network of world-class port, road, rail and intermodal infrastructures.

What are the advantages for businesses?

Easy Access to components and High-quality Industrial-strength sufficient distribution port, road and rail energy supply of goods produced infrastructures on international markets

Business Land environment that ready for favours synergy development between industrial activities

Source : Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation, 2017

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 13 Foreign Trade Zone Point (FTZ) Canada is a foreign trade zone. What does that mean? The term generally refers to a specific location that is officially designated for eligibility for tariff and tax exemptions with respect to the purchase or importation of raw materials, components or finished goods. Such materials and goods can generally be stored, processed or assembled in the FTZ for re-export or for entry into the domestic market.

Québec City Foreign Trade Zone Point

A unique gateway

to help local businesses optimize their exports by giving them access to:

Strategic advice Federal programs Training programs High-calibre logistical and coaching and services associated for businesses infrastructures service for exports, with foreign trade logistics and duties zones

Financing, duty exemptions, customs bonded warehouses, distribution centres, etc.

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 14 Québec International is proud to meet all of the demands related to the Foreign Trade Zone for the Québec City area. This program, allied with our knowledge and expertise in marketing, exportation and foreign talent recruitment, provides an additional boost to our services for businesses and promotion of the area.

Québec City’s Foreign Trade Zone Point is a joint initiative by the Government of Canada, the Cities of Québec and Lévis, Jean-Lesage International Airport and Québec International. Québec International is also responsible for coordinating and running the Point.

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 15 Air transportation passengers million 1.7 destinations direct 30 Over per week 420 flights More than City Québec downtown from minutes 20 Located best experience the passengers possible. modernizing been has Airport for several years so offer that it can refurbishment and kiosks City of International infrastructures. The Québec New terminal, new addition bridges, of passenger self-serve check-in Airport International City Jean-Lesage Québec Sources: Québec City Jean-Lesage International Airport, 2017 and Port of Québec, 2018

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / infrastructures /logistical simple it’s area, City Québec the or helicopter flights at competitive rates. competitive at flights helicopter or plane chartered offer businesses -Many Note • Pascan • Delta • • • • air carriers 11 scheduled area of terminal the facilities doubling the in 2018, modernizationin the of airport $277 Minvested Air transat transat Air Inuit Air Airlines American Canada Air

• WestJet • • • • United Airlines United Sunwing PAL airlines Porter

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Québec City Jean-Lesage International Airport Near major international cities many of which are direct connections or require only 1 connection

Flight hours 1 h 2 h 3 h 4 h 5 h 6 h

Toronto ••• New York ••• Chicago •••••••••• Washington DC •••••••••••••••••• London ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Paris •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Customs pre-clearance area

This centre allows travellers to the United States to go through American customs on Canadian soil, with American Customs agents, as if they were on a domestic flight.

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The Québec City metropolitan area has an effective road network with a diverse range of services and highly competitive prices. This is a flexible and often-used means of transportation in the province of Québec, for short and long distances alike. 4,500 km 2 transshipment of roads centres running north-south served by the railway and east-west for efficient road transportation Average of up to 22 tons $2.3 B invested transported by truck from 2014–2018 to repair the road network Source: Ministère des Transports du Québec, 2016 Distance from main cities:

Direct access 250 km 760 km 800 km 860 km

to interprovincial Montréal ••• Toronto •••••••••••••• highways Boston ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

and highways to the northeastern New York ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• and central United States

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 18 Companies such as Dicom, FedEx, Purolator, DHL, Canpar, UPS, LoomisExpress also provide extensive coverage of the area, providing simple,

effective service Laberge Groupe

Full range of services and developed expertise in specialized transportation, such as: • partial- and full-load Distribution • heated and temperature- controlled center • dedicated transportation In 2017, the American shipping • heavy load transportation giant announced the opening of a 1M sq. ft. distribution centre • container transportation in the Québec City area to serve all of Eastern Canada

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Canadien National Rail transportation

The Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (Québec-Gatineau line) offer highly efficient interconnection with all of North America. Up to Mode of 120 cars transportation per train, holding up to 100 tons each used by many industries, including the paper, wood 4 marshalling products and chemical yards products industries 2 priority 2 passenger railways yards

Note - VIA Rail, an independent Crown Trains coming corporation, offers passenger train services from everywhere for more than 400 communities in the country in Canada, Mexico and the United States

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5 12 8 N 2 11 Beauport 14 St-Augustin- 15 30 13 de-Desmaures 27 1 4 Québec City 7 17 St. Lawrence River St. La wren 21 ce Riv 29 26 er 32 18 24 23 31 22 20 Orléans Island

19 e River St. Lawrenc St. La 25 Lévis wrenc 28 e Riv 3 9 er

Montréal 10 16 2 km 1 mile = 1.62 km

Industrial parks Logistical Other points and zones infrastructures of interest

1 D’Estimauville 12 Québec City Jean-Lesage 24 Québec National Assembly Innovation Space International Airport 25 Lévis City Hall 2 Espace d’innovation Michelet 26 Québec City Hall 13 Transhipment centre - 3 Lévis Innoparc Groupe TYT 4 Québec Metro 27 Québec City Trade Show 14 Transhipment centre - High Tech Park (PTQM) (ExpoCité) Transit Henri IV 28 Lévis Trade and 5 Armand-Viau industrial Park Convention Centre 15 Henri-IV Rail Yard 6 Chauveau industrial Park 29 Québec City 16 Joffre Rail Yard Convention Centre 7 Duberger industrial Park 17 Limoilou Rail Yard 8 François-Leclerc 18 Sainte Foy CN Rail Yard 30 Vidéotron Centre industrial Park (amphitheatre) 9 Lauzon industrial Park 19 Lévis River Terminal 10 Pintendre industrial Park 31 Château Frontenac 20 Québec City River Terminal 11 Lebourgneuf industrial Zone 32 Observatoire de la Capitale 21 VIA Rail Terminal (Observatory) (Québec City) 22 VIA Rail Terminal (Sainte Foy)

23 Port of Québec City

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 23 Specialized companies in transportation and logistics

Customs and shipping brokers Rail transportation • Axxess international • Canadian National • Cole International • Canadian Pacific • Genesee & Wyoming Logistics, transportation • Via Rail (passenger) and storage services • Dolbec International Terminal operators • Kuehne + Nagel • Québec Stevedoring Company • Bernières • IMTT • Transport Idéal / Groupe Guilbault • CanTerm • Groupe TYT • Cargoways Logistics Chartered flights • Orizon aviation Québec Road transportation • Skyjet • TransForce • Air Liaison • Groupe Robert • Chrono Aviation • Groupe Morneau • Max Aviation • Norcité • Pascan Aviation • Transport L. Rodrigue • Even more transporters Helicopter in neighbouring areas • Capitale Hélicoptère / GoHelico

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 24 Our expertise in logistics Québec City is home to numerous training programs, researchers and specialists. These qualified professionals use their knowledge and work to boost the area’s logistics expertise.

Research centres and chairs Cutting-edge technical • Interuniversity Research Centre and university courses on Enterprise Networks, Logistics • Transportation logistics techniques and Transportation (CIRRELT) (Cégep Garneau) • Centre d’expertise en transport • Industrial engineering technologies et logistique (CETL) (Cégep Limoilou) • Airport Research Chair at Université Laval • Industrial electronics technologies • Canada Research Chair in Integrated (Cégep Lévis-Lauzon) Logistics at Université Laval • Faculty of Business Administration (Université Laval): - Supply chain management (undergraduate) - Operations and logistics (Bachelor’s degree, undergraduate) - Manufacturing and logistics management (MBA) - Operations and decision-making systems (Master’s and PhD)

the Québec City area, it’s simple / logistical infrastructures / 25 Outstanding outreach and assistance network Here, all of our actors in the economic development sector work in harmony to meet the needs of investors and entrepreneurs, helping them ensure the success of their business projects.

Research Public Centers authorities

Benefit from the network of targeted contacts of

Financial Entrepreneurial partners network

Clusters Consulting associations network

Our mission is simple: Contribute to the economic development of the Québec City area and enhance its international status.

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