The establishment of same-day delivery networks and the growth in production activity will drive further growth in the European logistics sector, Property's latest briefing on the sector has heard.

The establishment of same-day delivery networks and the growth in production activity will drive further growth in the European logistics sector, Property's latest briefing on the sector has heard.

'Logistics is being heavily impacted by the growth of e-retailing. What we are seeing now in the US is that same-day delivery is having a huge impact on how retailers and logistics have to function,' Hadley Dean, head of Eastern Europe at Colliers told the briefing during the Provada real estate fair in Amsterdam in June.

'Everyone is talking about e-commerce and the huge amount of demand it is generating. But let's not forget about the basic day-to-day logistics and the production growth happening in Europe right now,' he added.

Damian Harrington, regional director of research at Colliers International, gave a presentation in which he listed the key drivers for change in the logistics real estate sector such as e-commerce; best-shoring (bring production back closer to the customer); new technologies such as 3D printing, robotics and the ageing of the population; as well as multi and inter-modal freight distribution.

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