The ranking also includes Prahova, Ilfov and Cluj. At the opposite end of the scale are Vaslui, Giurgiu, Braila, Ialomita, Vrancea, Covasna and Salaj.
Bucharest leads the ranking, with an intensity of 2.5 times above the national average. Calculations take into account only the amount of freight loaded in a county and unloaded in another county, being the only data available on a region level.
The analysis also reveals that in 2018, of the total amount of road freight transports of 230 million tons, the amount transported countrywide exceeded 180 million tons, over three times higher than the amount of imports/exports which represent the difference up to 230 million tons.
“The four counties in north-eastern Romania account for nearly 20% of the total potential employees, but generate less than 10% of the total amount of freight transported countrywide”, the analysis also shows.
The Romanian industrial and logistics market had a moderate first quarter, in the context in which the total storage space lease transactions decreased to less than half between January and March 2019 (some 30,000 square meters compared to 74,000 sqm annually in 2018). However, the healthy private consumption remains the engine of demand for storage space and the existing pipeline suggests that the second half of the year should be more dynamic, according to Colliers data.