According to CBRE Ukraine, as a result of hostilities in the Kyiv region, warehouse and logistics complexes with a total area of about 364,000 square meters were destroyed. m (including office space and other buildings on the territory of the complexes). Nearly 325,000 sq. m of net warehouse space was completely or partially destroyed, which is 21% of the total warehouse space in the Kiev region (as of the end of 2021, the total area was 1.6 million sq. m).
Among the warehouse facilities completely destroyed due to missiles and fires: Mirazh 1 (GBA 29,800 sq.m.) of which the Foxtrot retailer was the main tenant, Komodor Logistics Park (GBA 68,900 sq.m.), Kuehne + warehouse complex Nagel (GBA 19,000 sq.m.), a distribution center on the left bank of Kyiv (GBA 24,000 sq.m.), owned by the largest Ukrainian grocery retailer ATB, Prologistic Services complex (GBA 10,250 sq.m.), which housed a manufacturing plant Lipton tea, Unilever, UTA Service storage facility (GBA 23,000 sqm) and Vegi Trade vegetable store (GBA 20,000 sqm). While the distribution center in the village received partial destruction. Kopylov (GBA 30,460 sq.m), owned by the ATB chain, one of the largest cold warehouses in the RLC region (GBA 63,000 sq.m), warehouse complexes West Gate Logistic (GBA 97,000 sq.m) and Terminal II in Bucha (GBA 32,000 sq.m) owned by the investment company Dragon Capital, as well as the Trans West pharmaceutical warehouse (GBA 9,500 sq.m), located in the village. Darling. Among the main tenants of the West Gate Logistic lineup were: Bohnenkamp Ukraine, Good Wine, Ekol Logistics Ukraine, Logistic Plus, Watsons, SAVService, DC Ukraine and Mary Kay. The total area of the warehouses listed above, subjected to partial destruction, is 164,000 sq.m.
The warehouse facilities that were located along the M-06 highway suffered the most, where the villages received significant damage. Parking lot, s. Petrushki, p. Buzovaya and Makarovsky district. It was the Zhytomyr direction (M-06) that was the most popular for warehouse construction, and by the end of 2021 the total warehouse area in this direction was more than 290,000 sq.m. Relatively less destruction of storage facilities occurred in the Chernihiv (M-01) and Warsaw (M-07) directions.
Demand for warehouses: more than 400,000 sq. m warehouses of the largest companies
Natalia Sokirko, Head of Warehouse and Logistics Real Estate Department:
“After analyzing the information about the destruction of warehouse and logistics facilities in the Kyiv region, we can assume that they were deliberately destroyed by the Russian army in order to break logistics chains and, as a result, create an artificial humanitarian catastrophe for the population. Now we see the destroyed grocery and pharmaceutical warehouse complexes and warehouses distributors of hygienic products of prime necessity.”
In recent years, the demand for warehouse space in Kyiv has remained at a fairly high level. Thus, the destruction of 20% of warehouse space in the Kiev region alone is evidence of the forced relocation of the logistics and warehouse hub to the western region, which is additionally due to demand from Ukrainian companies that have lost warehouse facilities as a result of hostilities and companies interested in diversifying their real estate portfolios. to minimize the risks of destruction of such objects.
At the moment, a full analysis of the volume of destroyed objects in square meters is not possible, as property owners are still studying the extent of destruction.
