Kuehne+Nagel Group returned to significant year-on-year profit growth in the fourth quarter. Profitability improvements were achieved in sea and air logistics in the second half of 2024. Acquisitions with increasing value were completed in North America and Asia.
The year 2025 brings a number of new opportunities, but also challenges, for the logistics and warehousing industry. Let's take a look at the key trends and risks that will shape the industry in the coming year.
The past few years certainly haven’t been easy for retailers. A pandemic, global chain disruptions and shortages, inflationary pressures that have squeezed consumers’ wallets and increased product costs, economic uncertainty and geopolitical instability have resulted in the closure of thousands of stores and the demise of numerous brands. Not content with all this economic disruption, a new phase of digital technology has altered consumer behaviour and increased expectations, changing the retail marketplace forever. Growth opportunities exist, but seizing them requires new mindsets, technologies, supply chain capabilities, and logistics networks.
The Slovak industrial and logistics real estate market expects the completion of almost 330,000 m2 of new premises this year. Most of them are already pre-leased.
DHL Supply Chain Slovakia, a leader in contract logistics, company awarded with GPTW certificate and the most innovative and pioneering global company announces a major change in its leadership structure in Slovakia.
The fifth hall in VGP Park Bratislava was completed and handed over to its tenants. The park, aiming to obtain the BREEAM Excellent certificate, will have a total of eleven buildings.
Developer BLUEPRINT is preparing logistics projects for 120 million euros. The development company BLUEPRINT responds to the high demand for logistics premises in the vicinity of Bratislava and is preparing two projects that will help satisfy this demand. Specifically, it concerns the construction of a logistics center in Podunajské Biskupice, Bratislava, and the second project is a logistics hall in Croatian Grob.
The domestic industrial real estate market experienced a real "boom" during the coronavirus pandemic. The record growth of interest in renting new premises, especially from companies linked to e-commerce, triggered extensive speculative construction. However, after two extraordinary years, there was a slowdown in demand last year, which continues this year as well. Although the market situation is stable and positively influenced by the gradual reduction of construction costs in combination with the stabilization of yields, in recent months there has been a slight increase in the vacancy rate and the emergence of two new phenomena on the market. CBRE, a world leader in the field of commercial real estate services, analyses the growing trend of subletting and targeted maintenance of some properties by developers in the so-called shell & core condition.
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