Trafic Media and Archicom are very pleased by the overwhelming interest for the second Logistics Seminar in Romania dedicated to Warehousing: different types for different purposes on different locations. More than 270 participants were the audience on this unique logistics event. The seminar background is to speed up the developments in the logistics field in Romania. The key ingredient of the seminar was to bring together international experience and local practice. The culture of the Romanians in general, and the knowledge of logistics and the supply chain available here in particular, demands specialised external knowledge. This and the great need for parties who are willing to make investments in Romania, where the base for the Warehousing theme.
More than 85% of the 270 attendees were supply chain managers and directors of Romanian companies. A high level of appreciation was expressed in the reactions to the program that emerged during the panel discussion and questions at the press conference. Great enthusiasm about this initiative, and particularly the quality of the attendees, was also expressed by the sponsors. As well as the content itself, the opportunity for networking in the exhibition area during the breaks was particularly valued by all participants. During the programme expert panels discussed about the latest developments, concepts, solutions, bottlenecks, issues and risks. One of the day’s conclusions was that there is a great need for state of the art warehouses and distribution centres on all logistics hotspots in Romania.
Some further conclusions during the seminar party based on the participant survey held by Archicom Srl.:
• Distances in Romania are too large for trucking and therefore expensive;
• 80 % of all Logistics & Supply Chain activities fits in standard warehouses on multiple spots;
• 20 % of all Logistics & Supply Chain activities need a special designed solutions on predefined spots;
• You can save a lot of money by building and using a sophisticated warehouse including IT. For this you need to know exactly the Supply Chain position, logistics, the distribution process and the warehouse processes. On this base you have to define the warehouse requirements;
• Logistics is everything, everything is logistics. If logistics is well organised this can be promoted as a major commercial tool for the company and country as well;
• There is no location in Romania that fulfils all location requirements;
• There are no locations (except for two) that are large enough to facilitate cluster(ing) demand;
• There are no locations in Romania that have space and/or configuration to fulfil tomorrow’s demand. Romania can become the most important hub for the South East region in Europe;
• Today Romania lacks an integral strategy towards coherent economic centres / hubs. In the next years for instance there will be an expansion to 5 - 6 million TEU (containers) in Constanta. For the fast economic growth the next 8 years Romania needs:
- Develop at least 5 industrial parks of over 400 hectares each
- High integration of value adding processes & logistics processes. Consequently resulting in following Real Estate development forecast:
- Real Estate development of 4 million sqm of ‘new logistics with the majority outside Bucharest region’
- 0,5 million sqm ‘supportive logistics Real Estate with the majority outside Bucharest region
- 0,5 million sqm of new cold/conditioned Real Estate
- 0,5 million sqm ‘special purpose warehouse Real Estate.
• Develop the infrastructure in the whole country.
Archicom S.r.l. and Trafic Media will jointly organise a further 4 seminars in the coming 2 years. The next seminar to be held April 23rd 2008 about: “How to Optimize your supply chain”. The 4th Logistics seminar is planned on Oktober 30th, the theme for this event is not yet finalized.
More information can be found on
www.logisticsportal.roSponsor partners:PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditors & Accountants - Caema Rite Hite
Group H. Essers/Centrum Transport - Trafic Media - Archicom Consultants + Architects + Engineers - KLG Europe - Hammond & Associates - Te Baerts Transport - David Intercar Business Review – Equest/Colliers/Prologis – Europolis – Bito - RBK Group - Terra/Crown Mirzon - HiLo system De Depozitare – Conbird – WDP - Eye-Maxx - Novensys
SEE Real Estate
If you want to receive more information about the next logistics seminar (May 2008) please send an e-mail to violetta@idromania.ro For more press information please call ms. Marilena Matei (Trafic Media) tel. +40 217770698 e-mail: marilena.matei@traficmedia.ro (Romanian press) or mr. Joop Schaffels tel. +31 (0)6 53676370 e-mail: joop.schaffels@archicom.nl
