East Africa has seen an increase in demand for modern warehousing facilities due to increased business opportunities in the East Africa region and due to the change of behaviour of consumers, during Covid-19, to online shopping. This has brought about an increase in eCommerce businesses and as a result, in the need for warehousing in East Africa.
In October Africa Logistics Properties opened a warehousing facility for SMEs in Kenya. This is the start of their intention to build modern A Grade warehousing in Africa.
The first warehouse project covers 50,000 square metres and is already 75% full.
The second project is massive at 92,000 square metres. It covers more than 19 hectares of land and is made up of seven phases. Phase 1 is intended for SMEs looking for warehousing that is a minimum of 490 square metres. The rest of the phases will be for bigger companies, both local and international, who are looking to run their logistics according to international standards.
The focus is on industrial and retail warehousing, commodity warehousing, cold storage and e-Commerce.
Africa Logistics Properties is also offering its services to companies owning land in the Eastern part of the African region. These companies either have existing warehouses in need of upgrading or are needing to build new state-of-the-art warehousing facilities.
Their vision for 10 years down the line, is to develop Small and Medium Enterprise parks, Industrial and Technology parks and Industrial Manufacturing Clusters.
It is excellent to see this type of activity and growth in Africa in 2020.