Overview
Bay of Quinte is Ontario's largest logistics centre on Highway 401 east of Toronto. It serves a large food processing sector and a manufacturing sector that includes auto parts makers and plastics and packaging manufacturers. It offers a central location for distribution centres serving the large Canadian and U.S. markets, with low-cost space and labour.
A closer look
Bay of Quinte hosts a vital, growing logistics sector that supports our food processors, manufacturers and distribution centres. Today, more than 3,000 people here hold jobs in trucking, rail and storage/warehousing.
Spurring sector growth are economies to be realized by outsourcing logistics and using computer and communications technologies to support single supply-chain management systems.
- Logistics companies are locating in Bay of Quinte to gain important competitive advantages:
- High return on investment in location:
- Located astride Highway 401, Canada's busiest highway, which has registered the largest increase in truck traffic in the past five years
- Within legal log times for reach and back haul of the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montréal and Ottawa-markets estimated in 2005 to include 10,089,242 people
- Quick, easy access to northeast U.S. border crossings
- Ideally situated for a distribution centre serving multiple markets
- Better service to Chicago than from Montréal and better service to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Washington than from Toronto
- Higher return on investment in real estate:
- Lower real estate costs, compared to those of the Greater Toronto Area
- Higher return on investment in labour:
- highly experienced and qualified cross-border drivers
- lower pay rates than those in Toronto
- high worker loyalty and productivity
- less competition for drivers than in Toronto
For more details on the Logistics Sector in the Bay of Quinte Region, please reivew
this informative brochure.