How can logistics real estate support third-party logistics providers?

In recent years, the logistics outsourcing market has significantly expanded, driving also growth of real estate sector. However, these subjects have been investigated separately, without empirical evidence on assessment warehouse features, nor studies matching those with 3PL providers’ needs. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a deeper understanding alignment between industry’s needs and offering. An extensive literature review was used investigate characteristics industry define present future challenges for industry. Afterwards, features were analysed through data collected 75 buildings located in Italy. Results indicate that seems relatively prepared support such could be further strengthened investments towards environmental sustainability automation.