News / Shippers can profit from DPW's ambitions for Romania as a logistics gateway

Mock up of completed terminal. Credit DP World.

Major manufacturers and support factories in Romania’s industrial heartland of Transylvania are in discussions to begin operations at DP World’s new €20m ($19.56m) logistics hub at Aiud.

IKEA, Bosch and a range of automotive component factories and white goods manufacturers are interested in refocusing their supply chains into Europe.

Dubai-based port and logistics company DP World is building a regional logistics centre on Romania’s central plain, some 650km north-west of Constanta.

The Aiud terminal will mean these industries, and others within a 50km ...