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And what if tomorrow’s new logistic territories are the same as yesterdays? This is certainly the feeling that comes from reading the very latest supply-chain management progress report produced by Oblog*.
Not surprisingly, it is once again still the four main logistic centres on the North-South backbone of the French hexagon that show the greatest concentration of construction starts. In 2007, they totalled over 990,000 m², or nearly a third of the area started in that year. Certainly, their share has diminished progressively since 2005 due to the effect of the development of new axes such as Paris-Le Havre and Nantes-Paris. Two key axes to provide links with port centres, the great future winners.
More precisely, who will profit from this redistribution of the cards? “As well as Seine-Maritime and Seine-et-Marne, over 20,000 m² of logistic areas were constructed in 2006-2007 in newly attractive zones like Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire and Loire Atlantique. During the last 7 years the Seine-et-Marne, Val-d’Oise, Seine-Maritime, Essonne and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence departments have been the most attractive for property promoters and investors. In general, the logistic zones developed during these years correspond to the growth in palletised inter-regional goods traffic. This traffic requires the location of warehouses in the heavy goods vehicle traffic zones to minimise empty journeys’, according to the Oblog analysis.
For building areas under 5,000 m², they remained the most often constructed in 2007 (1,412 million m²), an increase compared to 2006. In the 4th quarter of 2007, the area started reached 774,000 m², including 343,000 m² with areas less than 5,000 m², and 197,000 m² for areas between 20,000 and 50,000 m². Projects over 50,000 m² continue their falling trend.
*Oblog is an initiative by Afilog, Foncière Europe Logistique, GSE, GS1 France, Logistique Seine Normandie.