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War in Ukraine generates nearshoring surge in CEE

Nearshoring was a trend benefitting the industrial and logistics real estate sector in CEE before Russia invaded Ukraine. But since the invasion, enquiries from companies with existing industrial operations in Russia and Ukraine have increased delegates at the recent CEE Summit organised by Real Asset Media and Poland Today were told.
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