
Persistent Disruption: Prologis Research Special Report
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Prologis' Research team releases “Persistent Disruption” that explores the shift logistics customers are making from "just in time" to "just in case" – or a permanent shift toward resilience. This shift will create powerful demand tailwinds in logistics real estate and could prolong or worsen the current shortage of space.
“During Q3, we saw a record low of 3.0% in vacancies in Europe. This trend already pointed towards an increasing demand for space and for inventory stock up early on. In the UK, due to Brexit, the urgency to build supply chain resilience has been somewhat expected but we also saw that the disruption was more severe than predicted In Europe, demand to build inventory has been traditionally low. This is now slowly changing and leading to shortages.
Both across Europe and the UK, findings show that the demand for logistics space and to increase inventories will continue as part of customers’ aim to build resilience.” - Eva van der Pluijm-Kok, Director, Research & Strategy
Research key takeaways include:
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