Colliers Copenhagen Property Market Report 2019

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Copenhagen Property Market Report 2019

Future Airport Business Park

COPENHAGEN

Airside facilities at Copenhagen Airport command some of the highest logistics rents in Greater Copenhagen. Activity is brisk in the area, which already has a presence of large international airport-related businesses, including FedEx and DHL. In January 2019, the latter announced its plans to invest more than DKK 1bn in a new state-of-the-art automated logistics centre to handle more than 37,000 packages per hour, making it the largest investment by DHL in the Nordics. Copenhagen Airport currently plans to develop a more than 30-ha site into an Airport Business Park to accommodate distri- bution and logistics businesses. The vision is to make it a hub for distribution as well as an ideal location for e-commerce logis- tics centres. By the time the business centre is fully devel- oped, the scale of investment is expected to have run into DKK 2bn. However, the successful development of the Airport Business Park depends on whether or not it is possible to attract top-league businesses such as Amazon.

Online sales in Denmark reach new record high (index 100 = 2010)

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

100

115

137

156

184

217

252

288

334

Note I: Turnover e-commerce in Denmark. Estimated online sales (DKK billion). Note II: Turnover 2018 is based on interim estimate by DIBS 2018 e-commerce report. Sources: FDIH/DIBS (2018 figure only)