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The Port of Nantes – Saint Nazaire serves both the Nantes / Saint Nazaire urban area, which with its 800 000 inhabitants is one of Europe’s major cities, and Greater Western France, within which Nantes is an important logistical hub.
The Port is linked to over 380 ports throughout the world.

Access by sea
 

Access by road

Via Nantes’ 40-kilometre-long ring road, the Department is directly connected to a network of motorways going to Paris, Rennes, Bordeaux, Lyons and the coast of Brittany.

 

Access by rail

There are TGV high-speed train links to Paris (2 hours), Lille (3 hours), Brussels (4 hours), London (4 hours) and Lyons (5 hours). Nantes is a TGV rail journey away from the leading centres of decision-making in France and elsewhere in Europe.

 

Access by air


Nantes Atlantique International Airport provides daily links with Europe’s major cities. Saint Nazaire’s international cargo airport, located near Montoir-de-Bretagne, complements this activity as regards the transportation by air of heavy-lift cargoes.