Paris scores as Europe’s top market for logistics centrality

Paris / Île-de-France is home to Europe’s top micro-locations for efficient logistics distribution, according to the Paths of Distribution score, published by LaSalle Investment Management.

The innovative, granular new research gives the ability to compare logistics locations at a micro, market, country and pan-European level, with extensive flexibility for understanding, benchmarking and ranking locations at both micro and macro scale.

The Netherlands, thanks to its immediate access to Europe’s major consumption centers and having one of the crossroads of trade within and into Europe, was identified as the strongest-performing country. The port city of Rotterdam, the key gateway of global trade, ranked second and is joined in the top 20 regional markets by local rivals Amsterdam and the North Brabant region of Breda and Tilburg. Germany, the second-best-performing country, provided anot