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The epidemic, the need for stocking in the supply chain, and the record growth in e-commerce brought warehouses to 100% occupancy in 2020. The increase in demand paved the way for new investments. 2021 will be a year of investment and technological transformation in storage, with a newly established and fully owned subsidiary making a debt-free acquisition that will create northern Europe's leading cold chain logistics provider.

With the effect of the pandemic, warehouse capacities reached 100 percent occupancy in 2020. It is predicted that 2021 will be the year of investment and technological transformation in storage. The epidemic, the disruptions in the supply chain, and the rapid rise in raw material prices increased the need for stocking in the supply chain. As the record growth in e-commerce increased the demand for warehouses, hundreds of facilities reached full capacity. Online shopping spending grew by 85 percent compared to 2019, reaching a size of approximately 250 billion TL. Some companies doubled or even tripled their capacity in online storage. The e-commerce industry is aimed to reach 400 billion TL in 2021 this year. This means that the need for storage in e-commerce will increase. Logistics giant speakers in the intermediate storage place for investment in Turkey Amazon.

Sector representatives emphasize that increasing volumes and the need to meet demands in the shortest time make technological investments in warehouses obligatory. State-of-the-art warehouses also take companies one step ahead of the competition. In the storage area, a significant increase in automation investments is expected in 2021. Starting from the acceptance of the product, the systems in which the manpower is minimized and full automation is activated in the storage and loading processes will come to the fore. Thus, it is aimed to accelerate the operations and minimize the error rates. The use of robots and drones in warehouses will also become widespread.