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

Completed Terminal - Mock Up 2 compressed

Mock up of completed terminal. Credit DP World.

By Nick Savvides

20/10/2022

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 ...

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