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Perishables & live animals
Perishables Today's consumers expect all year round fresh products such as fruit, vegetables, seafood, meat, flowers and plants. Such perishable products require special care and strict temperature control within the entire supply chain in order to maintain their
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Pharmaceuticals & healthcare
The pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is quite unique and demanding when it comes to logistics. It requires expertise in complex logistics
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High-tech & electronics
From semi-conductors to consumer electronics, high-tech & electronics products are characterised by rapid innovation, short product life cycles and a
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Customs and VAT optimization
When investigating possible locations from where to organize their distribution for the European market, companies often tend to forget to take into
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Collaborations
The Single Window for Logistics programme involves many government agencies and ministries.
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Implementation
The Single Window for Logistics programme (SWL) has been launched in 2014. Since then the following steps have been carried out:
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Labor productivity
Lower taxation and social charges The comparison is based on a single person without children, established in september 2017.
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Industry
In their quest for enhanced competitiveness, many industrial manufacturers are looking for the ideal location for developing, producing and
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Goals & benefits
The main goal of the Single Window for Logistics is to guarantee the fast clearance of goods through Luxembourg. It boosts the attractiveness of the logistics sector and promotes Luxembourg as a multimodal platform of choice for economic
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Easy and fast
Increasing internationalization of business and supply chain security considerations in turn puts pressure on the automation of trade and customs
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Workforce
Cross-border thinking, mobility and the cosmopolitan nature of its workforce, of whom more than one third commutes each day from the three neighboring
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Education & training
Education Master's degree The Government of Luxembourg and the University of Luxembourg founded the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) in late 2015. The LCL was created in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center
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Rail/road terminal
The Luxembourg intermodal terminal is ideally positioned as an international hub for the consolidation of multimodal transport flows across Europe.
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Intelligent transportation system (ITS)
Intelligent transportation system (ITS) Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) consist in the application of new technologies in the area of transport.
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Smart & innovative logistics
Digitalization and new technological developments, such as 3D printing, the Internet of Things, predictive analytics, robotics and artificial intelligence are expected to reshape processes along the entire logistics value chain from contract logistics and warehouse management to last-mile delivery
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Global air-cargo connectivity
Luxembourg has an air-cargo network including more than 100 destinations on six continents from the airport Cargo Center. Luxembourg is the headquarters of Cargolux Airlines and is often a major European hub for other air-freight carriers (China
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Airport Cargo Center
Luxembourg is the 6th largest freight airport in Europe allowing global air-cargo connectivity. The ultramodern freight center of the Luxembourg Airport has a capacity of 1.2 million metric tons per year. Its principal assets are the following: short
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River port
The Mertert river port is the only trimodal platform (water/highway/rail) in Luxembourg. It has a surface area of 65 hectares and plays a major role in the import and export of heavy materials such as oil, agri
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Certifed players
Depending on the role within the supply chain, logistics players in Luxembourg are continuously looking to match the best standards in order to offer
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Customs & fiscal territories
The European Union (EU) is composed of 28 Member States: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland,