Warehouse co-dependence

Stable growth By 2020 the internet retail market is to keep growing at the same rate, i.e. app. 15 pct per year. “In 2020 e-commerce will reach 10 pct of the entire retail sales in the country,” says Jan Zombirt, the director of the market research and consultancy at JLL. “The growth of the e-commerce market in Poland will, however, be based on the growth of the number of internet users. At the moment 65 pct of Poles use the internet every day,” he adds. Logistics operators do not believe that the amount of warehouse space could be a problem in terms of the development of online sales over the next five years. “The market is adjusting and it is possible to build more space quickly if need be,” states the report. A warehouse area of 280,000 sqm is currently under construction. “50 modules of a minimum of 5,000 sqm will be ready for lease within six months,” emphasises Paweł Sapek, a b