Turkey poised to be next emerging logistics location: JLL

Turkey tops the list of emerging logistics locations in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, according to Jones Lang LaSalle's inaugural survey of European supply chain managers.

More than one quarter of all respondents ranked Turkey in their top three emerging locations across EMEA.

Poland and Romania followed as the next single markets while respondents attributed strong potential to the Eastern Europe and Africa regions as a whole.

Respondents ranked geographic location (83%), economic growth (81%) and political stability (68%) as the three most required attributes for an emerging logistics location.

'Turkey offers all attributes required to become an emerging logistics market,’ Alexandra Tornow, head of EMEA logistics & industrial at Jones Lang LaSalle, said.

'Its geographic location bridging Europe with Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries is ideal to make it an international logistics hub, its economy is growing strongly based on a stable political framework, there have been and are still significant investments in infrastructure, a large and young population base offers a huge labour pool which is increasingly well trained, domestic consumer spending is on the rise and foreign direct investment has significantly picked up over recent years.'