Poland’s convenient location, in the very centre of Europe, makes the country a perfect investment destination for enterprises targeting both Western and Eastern part of the continent. From Warsaw it takes only several hours either by car, train or plain to reach a number of Europe’s major capital cities like Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, Bratislava, Kiev, Vilnius and Minsk.

Poland is a country where the main trade and transport routs leading from the North to the South and from the West to the East of the continent intersect. The country is crossed by 4 out of 10 constantly developed trans-European tracks: form Helsinki via Warsaw, from Berlin via Warsaw, Minsk and Moscow to Niżny Nowogród, from Brussels via Cracow to Kiev and from Gdańsk to Brno.

The international routs crossing Poland have been constantly developed and modernised. Transport investments are possible largely thanks to the cooperation between national roads’ directorates and local governments of the neighbouring countries and with a substantial help of funds and subsidies from the EU. Communication hubs have become centres where various types of means of transport interlace. Development of the country’s road infrastructure is one of the Polish administration’s priorities.

Numerous international roads run through Poland:

• the E28 route, a West-East road, running from Kołbaskowo located at the Polish-German border to Gdańsk;
• the E30 route, another European route connecting the Western and Eastern part of Poland, from Świecko to Terespol;
• the E40 route, from Zgorzelec at the Polish-German boarder to Przemyśł and Medyka at the Polish-Ukrainian border;
• the E65 route, from Świnoujście by the Polish border with Germany in the North of the country to Jelenia Góra and Jakuszyce at the Polish-Czech border;
• the E75 route, from Gdańsk in the very North of Poland to Cieszyn in the South by the border with the Czech Republic
• the E77 route, form Gdańsk to Chyżne at the Polish-Slovak border in the South.

The Government Program for National Roads Construction for the years 2008-2012 envisages construction of around 620km of motorways. Additionally round 473km of motorways are to be realised in the frame of public-private partnership as well as 1973 km express roads and 58 bypasses of a joint length of 393km. There are also plans to build and modernise 1163km of national roads. 121 billion PLN was earmarked for either construction or modernisation of transport infrastructure in Poland in the next five years.

The Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport belongs to the most important international airports on the continent. In 2009 the airport attended 8 million passengers i.e. almost half of the overall number of people flying from Poland. At the same time the importance and role of international airports in regional cities has been on the increase, enough to mention the dynamic development of airports in Cracow-Balice (2.5 million passengers in 2009) Katowicae-Pyrzowice (around 2.3 million passengers), Gdańsk (1.8 million) as well as airports in Wrocław (1.3 million), Poznań-Ławice (1.2 million), Łódź (310 thousand) and Rzeszów (380 thousand).

According to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Poland ranks among the fastest growing markets of aviation services in the whole region which is mainly thanks to the increase in the number of air connections from Poland, initiation of numerous low-cost flights and a significant rise in the number of passengers.

Both the central government administration and local self-governments have been developing plans envisaging construction and organisation of several new regional airports together with a development of convenient road and train transport infrastructure with the biggest cities in the country.

One of the elements that undoubtedly highlights the convenience of the country’s geographical position and benefits resulting from the location is the access to the Baltic Sea. Poland has four major ports which are located in Gdańsk, Gdynia, Świnoujście and Szczecin as well as several local ports supporting the freight reloading processes.

The central location of Poland does result attractive for foreign companies which aim at slashing time of order realisation for customers in the markets East of the centre of Europe. The fact that foreign entrepreneurs invest in creating logistic centres in Poland results from dynamic growth in demand, development of trade cooperation within the frame of the extended European Union and also from the ever more attractive domestic suppliers market in Poland. Despite the fact that currently round 75% of modern warehouse space is located in the vicinity of the capital, new office and commercial storage space has been expanding in regional business centres.

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