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Facts About Prologis
- 683 Million Square Feet
- 3,260 Buildings
- 5,000 Customers
- 1,600 Employees
- 19 Countries
- 4 Continents
- $81B Assets Under Management
- 1983 Founded
- 100 Global Most Sustainable Corporations
- S&P 500 Member
Logistics Real Estate Markets that Matter
Hamburg, Trade and Business Hub of Northern Germany
Hamburg, a cosmopolitan and historic port city on the River Elbe near the North Sea, is a key cog in the economy of the 21st century. With a population of 1.86 million, Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany.
Hamburg sits astride a series of transportation axes—shipping lanes, motorways, rail and air—that connect Scandinavia and Western,...
Rhine-Ruhr, Industrial Capital of Western Germany
Rhine-Ruhr is a highly industrialized, densely populated region of Western Germany that includes the major cities of Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Essen. With a population of about 10 million, the region is one of the biggest metropolitan areas in Europe. Rhine-Ruhr also is one of the world’s 10 largest economic regions.
Rhine-Ruhr, at the...
Central Germany, Junction for Vital Trade Routes
Portions of three federal states—Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony—form the metropolitan region of Central Germany. The region’s location is of unique importance to the logistics sector because it is situated at the intersection of Germany and its Eastern European neighbors. Some 2.4 million people live in the metropolitan region of Central...
Munich, Cosmopolitan Economic Engine of Bavaria
Munich, the capital of Germany’s innovative and wealthy state of Bavaria, is one of the most important commercial centers in Europe, as well as Germany’s leading high-tech location. Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with a population of approximately 1.54 million and about 6 million in the metropolitan area.
Greater Munich is a diverse,...
Hanover, Trade Fair Capital of Lower Saxony
Set on the River Leine, Hanover is the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. With a population of about 550,000 people, and within 100 miles of the vital North Sea ports of Bremen and Hamburg, Hanover is an important logistics hub for Germany.
Hanover has a diversified economy that is broadly representative of the German economy at large....
Frankfurt am Main, Trade and Business Hub of Central Germany and Central Europe
Frankfurt am Main is a vital international financial center and a European traffic hub. It is an important industrial, service and exhibition location and is listed among the world cities under economic criteria. With a population of 730,000, Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. In...
Dusseldorf, Successful Business Center in the Heart of Europe
Dusseldorf, with almost 636.000 inhabitants, is the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most densely populated federal state. The metropolitan area along the rivers Rhine and Ruhr has 10 million inhabitants. Some 155 million people, 31 percent of the total population of the European Union, live within a 500-kilometer radius of Dusseldorf....
Cologne, Leading Logistics Location in the West of Germany
Cologne, the fourth-largest city in Germany, is located in the most densely populated federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia. The region along the rivers Rhine and Ruhr is the largest conurbation nationwide and—with its 10 million inhabitants, about 1.08 million in Cologne itself—one of the 40 largest metropolises in the world.
Together with Bonn,...
Bremen, Metropolis of Northwest Germany
The federal state of Bremen, with the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven, has about 671,000 inhabitants; 557,000 of them are in Bremen alone. As a metropolis for northwest Germany, Bremen is the only German city to have an international airport only 10 minutes from the city center. Excellent connections to the port and motorways make Bremen an easily...
Rhine-Neckar, Powerful and Important in Southern Germany and Central Europe
The metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar—at the intersection point of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate—is an economic powerhouse for Germany and Europe.
Research
E-Commerce, the Service Imperative & Essential Location Strategies
For supply chains and their logistics real estate, the only constant is change. This paper is the first of a three-part series that will examine the latest consumer and supply chain trends driving logistics real estate. Specifically, in studying waves of change in supply chains, we identify four trends that are positively impacting logistics real estate, each of which can help clarify strategies to future-proof real estate operations and investments.
2017: A Year of Accelerated Rent Growth
The Prologis Logistics Rent Index, introduced in 2015, examines trends in net effective market rental growth in key logistics real estate markets in...