Northamptonshire benefits from a unique central strategic location at the hub of national infrastructure connections, communications and networks. As a result, we are often referred to by industry, as the ‘Golden Triangle’ for distribution and logistics.
The Intelligent Location for Logistics
- The industry includes core logistics companies carrying out haulage, postal, courier and freight activities; peripheral logistics organisations which include storage units and storage equipment and manufacture; as well as mail order services, integrators and third party logistics operators.
- The buoyant industry makes effective use of the county’s sophisticated network of major roads and railway links providing easy access to ports and airports. The established regional infrastructure, which has dedicated terminals for both rail and air freight and exceptional ICT services, combined with low labour and property costs makes Northamptonshire a perfect location for logistics organisations to grow and flourish.
- Easy Access to the major road networks, M1, M40, M45, M6, A14 (A1-M1 Link), A43 and A45
- Five international airports within one hour’s drive time include Heathrow, London Luton, Birmingham, Nottingham East Midlands and Stansted
- Three major air freight hubs nearby, including East Midlands Airport – the UK’s largest dedicated pure air freight terminal
- Efficient and fast passenger and freight rail links
- Two dedicated rail freight terminals at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) and the Eurohub in Corby.
- Three rail networks serving the region in all directions now connect with Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
- Major ports of Felixstowe, Harwich, Dover, Folkestone and Lowestoft are within 3 hours
- Over 80% of the UK’s population located within a four hour drive time
- Less than one hour to London by train
- Location at the heart of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, Europe’s Premier hi-tech region
- Local colleges have expertise in providing specific logistics training courses, vocational skills; business and enterprise training as well as managerial and executive level business courses.
- The Centre of Vocational Excellence for Logistics is based at Daventry as part of Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport is based in Corby.
