Tapping into key business markets with affluent consumers
The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area has a GDP per capita that is among the highest in the world, and its excellent international trade routes provide international businesses with access to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and beyond. The Amsterdam Area is renowned for helping businesses tap into the most attractive worldwide customer markets.
Central location
The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is strategically located in the heart of one of the world's highest concentrations of approximately 2,000 multinational companies. Moreover, the region acts as an attractive test market and stepping stone to one of the largest single markets in the world with a population of almost 500 million.
Excellent physical infrastructure
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is centrally located which means a mere two hours flying time to all crucial business destinations within Europe. The award-winning airport serves 265 destinations around the world with more than 90 airlines. Schiphol is the third largest European cargo airport and the fourth largest European passenger airport.
From Amsterdam, high-speed rail services connect you to Paris and Brussels within hours. The Port of Amsterdam ranks fourth in Europe, with easy, direct connections by rail, road and water.
Amsterdam is the world’s busiest cocoa port, Europe’s largest port for fuel exports and Europe’s second largest port for coal imports.
High-level ICT infrastructure
The Amsterdam Internet hub, AMS-IX, is the largest data transport hub in the world. Fibre optics transport data in real time to an increasing number of large and small networks, portals and web farms. It is therefore no surprise that the Netherlands is the second most densely cabled country in the world. The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is rapidly becoming the software and IT capital of Europe. Of all the Forbes 2,000 companies active in ICT, more than 50 % have an office in the Amsterdam Area.
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