LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

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LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
NETWORKING LOGISTICS CENTRES IN THE BALTIC SEA
REGION
FINAL NeLoC CONFERENCE 15 16 January 2004 Mauno
Koivisto Centre, Turku, Finland
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LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
Status

• Research project, co-ordinated by the Maritime
  Institute, selected locations for the main
  logistics centres.
• There are a number of local initiatives for
  construction of international, regional and local
  logistics centres.
• There are 4 registered companies whose objective
  is construction of a logistics centre, 2 of which
  are in liquidation.
• Logistics operators build their own networks of
  transhipment centres, which fill up the market
  for logistics services that could have been the
  domain of logistics centres.

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LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
Location plans
Results of the research project
SourceL. Mindur Theoretical grounds for
organising logistics centres in Poland. Science
and Technology conference Logistics Centres in
Mazowsze. Warsaw 9th October 2003.
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LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
Combined transport in Poland
Zródlowww.pkp-cargo.pl
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Investments of Prologis
LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
Source Own materials on the basis of
wwwgddp.gov.pl and CB RICHARD ELLIS
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Factors weakening existing initiatives
LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

• No support from the government.
• no programme,
• no funds or access to funds,
• no supportive legislation.
• No co-ordination.
• no idea,
• competing initiatives,
• no collaboration (initiators PKP CARGO).
• Weak infrastructure.
• no motorways,
• bad condition of many roads,
• no container terminals or their bad location,
• poor condition of inland waterways.

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Evaluation of the situation
LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
The seed initiative model
Source Wielkopolskie Centrum Logistyczne Konin
Stare Miasto S.A.
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LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
Evaluation of the situation
The evolutionary model
Mszczonów
Source www.mszczonow.pl
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Evaluation of the situation
LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

• The sources of problems with construction of
  logistics centres in Poland.
• No national policy for their construction.
• No long-term strategy which could be the tool for
  implementation of the policy.
• Results?
• No resources for construction.
• Consequences?
• No own means in realistic models of financing.
• No access to the structural funds.

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Evaluation of the situation
LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

• Wrong assumptions
• Belief that hundreds of millions PLN have to be
  engaged.
• Simple methods of calculating returns used in
  feasibility studies and business plans.
• Calculating incomes from activities that are in
  competition to logistics operators.

• Commentary
• Classic tools used by banks to evaluate the
  financial risk do not work. Banks are not willing
  to invest in logistics centres.
• The evaluation of the efficiency of the
  investment should include indirect and long- term
  profits.

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Conclusions
LOGISTICS CENTRES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

• Transport policy should support the increase in
  intermodality.
• There should be a governmental programme for
  implementation of the policy.
• The programme should be backed up by the
  availability of funds.
• Investments into logistics centres should be
  limited.
• The efficiency calculation should take into
  account long-term profits, which would attract
  public funds.
• Financing models should engage financial
  institutions with innovative products rather than
  banks.
• Financing models should take into account various
  forms of participation of public funds.