The best electronic logistic hubs in Eastern Europe

Electronics manufacturing requires a strong logistic support, to organize the supply chain as cost-effective as possible. The Eastern European electronics industry is served from some matured and some emerging hubs.

Hungary

 M0 Motorway, Hungary

Budapest. The main logistic hub of Hungary (and maybe Eastern Europe) is Budapest. The M0 Motorway around the City is not a bypass only, but the location of several logistic parks and warehousing companies, developing ~3 million sq.meters (approx. 32 million sq.feet) industrial and logistic facilities. The US-based Prologis is the market-leader service provider in Hungary, and has almost 500k sq.meter (~5,3 million sq.feet) warehousing spaces in more logistic parks along the M0.

 Delivery times from Polgar

Polgar. The emerging hub of Polgar Industrial Park is located directly at the Polgar-exit of M3 motorway. The Polgar Industrial Park provides a north-south (Poland to Romania) and east-west (Ukraine to Western Europe) delivery routes, 3 borders (Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania) can be reached in 90-120 minutes by truck. The Industrial Park of the Year has a logistic program, including 120k sq.meter (1.3 million sq.feet) industrial and logistic hall development for the next 5-10 years. Subsidized rental fees are under 3€/sq.meter/month (under 3.3€/sq.feet/year).

More electronics companies has located its logistics support to Polgar. Jabil Curcuit, the leading US-based EMS provider, has its hub and consignation storages in Polgar Industrial Park. The storages on 5k sq.m support the manufacturing units in Ukraine and Hungary.

Poland

Poland's logistics map 2012

The polish logistic market is devided in 3 parts: the Sector I is the City of Warsaw, Sector II are the logistics parks around Warsaw, and Sector III are the logistic locations outside Warsaw. Although the Warsaw-sectors with ~2,5 million sq.meters are the largest logistics sites of Poland, the electronics industry are supported mainly from smaller hubs, like Lodz, Poznan, Krakow and Wroclaw. Average rental fees are between 3-3.5 €/sq.meter/month.

Lodz. Lodz is located in the cross-road of north-east A1 motorway and the east-west A2 motorway, in the Lodz-Poznan-Bydgoszcz electronic manufacturing triangle. More logistics-focused facilities provides A-class warehouses for electronics industry on 1 million sq.meters. The Goodman Lodz Logistic Centre has 27k sq.m total size, and the Logistic City in Piotrkow (Lodz Metro Area, closed to Lodz International Airport) with its 450k sq.m is one of the largest facility in Poland.

Wroclaw. Wroclaw (or its old German name: Breslau) is located in the South-Western corner of Poland, called 'Silesia', at the A4 motorway. It is a well known manufacturing centre with electronics companies such as Whirlpool, LG Philips, Siemens and many others. One of the leading service provider is Panattoni Logistics Park.

Czech Republic

 Czech logistic market 2012

Just like the Czech electronics industry, the electronics logistics is focused in two hubs: the capital city Prague and the 2nd largest city, Brno. These cities have strong transportation connections, developed industrial/logistics real estate markets and supportive authorithies.

Prague. The logistic centres around Prague are available for 2.5-4.5€/sq.meter/month (2.8-5€/sq.feet/year) rental fees. The Airport Logistic Park has a 56,000 sqm hall development in the surrounding of Prague International Airport.
Brno. Brno, the second largest city of the country is also the centre of electronics manufacturing industry, representing companies like Acer, Honeywell or Siemens. The city provides good infrastructure, strong technical education - and at last but not least an excellent logistic support. The CEE market leader Prologis will launch soon a brand new development called Prologis Logistic Park Brno on 90,000 sq.meter

The Polgár Industrial Park was the best in 2011

In recognition of the efforts exerted by the industrial park and the local government in the field of investment promotion, the Polgár Industrial Park won the Best Industrial Park award. The Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency (HITA) bestowed the so-called Investor of the Year Award on companies that extraordinarily contributed to the development of the Hungarian economy in 2011. The award was vouchsafed in six categories in the Upper House of the Parliament on 26 January 2012.

The Best Industrial Park award was bestowed on the Polgár Industrial Park for its efforts exerted to promote investments. In cooperation with the local government, Polgár-Invest Kft. (that is the member of the InfoGroup real estate and property development corporate group) in charge of operating the industrial park entered inter alia investor-friendly measures into effect, such as the reform of the vocational training in accordance with the investors’ demands or the prioritized licensing and other administrative management of the settlers. By this award, the operator of the industrial park was recognised as similarly as the local government of the town of Polgár that collected the title of Investor-friendly Local Government in 2009. 

Jabil Circuit warehouse in Polgár Industrial Park

As a consequence of the close cooperation of the privately owned operator and the local government, the Polgár Industrial Park could welcome many new settlers in 2011. Having been recognised for creating jobs, Jabil Circuit installed its 4,000 m² business domicile here which satisfies the demands of its plants, each built in Eastern Hungary and in Ukraine, and which renders full warehousing and customs clearance services. As a newcomer logistics service provider, Toyota Tsusho will perform the international logistics processes of one of the largest multinational corporations manufacturing household appliances in its first, 6,000 m² business domicile that is built in Hungary. Delta-Truck, which distributes Renault trucks, purchased its industrial property here in 2011, and the Gyermely pasta plant constructed its 2,000 m² regional distribution centre here.    

Investors that require prompt plant installation stand in the centre of the focused business development strategy of InfoGroup that is in charge of developing the Polgár Industrial Park. The company offers its self-developed light industrial and warehousing halls, which can be installed just within 4 to 5 months, for these investors. The foundation of the foregoing has been implemented by the stable bank financing background, the erection licenses obtained in advance, and the project management know-how that has a history of two decades. 

Hungarian Investment Trade Agency and Investor of the Year Award Winners (AGCO, Jabil Circuit, Audi Motors Hungary, Bosch, Mylan and Polgár Industrial Park)

  

Being frequently accorded since 2004, the Investor of the Year Award was conferred this year to recognise the remarkably performing companies during the period of the economical global crisis. Mylan carried out the largest green field investment of 2011 in the city of Komárom (EUR 60 million), Audi Hungária Motor Kft., which was awarded in the previous years as well, implemented the largest volume expansion by the expansion of its pressing plant in the city of Győr (EUR 300 million). As regards creating new jobs, Jabil Circuit Magyarország Kft. was proven the most effective with an increase of 670 in the headcount of its corporate personnel. The Shared Service Center of the agricultural machinery manufacturing AGCO established in Budapest and employing corporate personnel of 170 acquired the title of the largest new regional service centre, while the exemplary activity of Bosch conducted with universities and research institutes was recognised in the field of R+D cooperation.