The concept of building a logistics center for Poznań and Greater Poland has a long tradition. Analyses conducted at the beginning of the 1990s indicated the purposefulness of its implementation and justified the needs in this area. The modern logistics services market was only just being created at that time, and manufacturers and distributors entering Poland needed appropriate logistics support. Although there was already an awareness that these services should be concentrated in an area designated for this purpose, and potential locations for several main national logistics centers were intuitively indicated, in reality, there was a lack of offers for logistics operators in the form of well-selected and prepared locations for settlement. As a result, settlements occurred where, alongside the fundamental incentives in the form of demand for logistics services and good communication, the investor encountered areas well-prepared for investment: attractive land prices, an orderly legal status for future investments, a good climate, and assistance from local authorities. Such activity led to the dispersion of logistics infrastructure.
Problems accompanying the construction of a national network of logistics centers in Poland
As a result of the implementation of the Commissioned Research Project No. PZB-023-13 entitled “Concept of locating logistics centers in Poland”, the purposefulness of building 6 to 8 regional logistics centers was indicated, with one of them located in Greater Poland. Unfortunately, the project results were not followed by a program with the status of a government program, which, following the example of similar programs implemented in some Western European countries, would have initiated the implementation of logistics centers key to the economy and financially supported at least the initial phase of their implementation.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2003/6.