With the growth and congestion in combination with rising prices, Riga’s status as the main centre for industry and logistics is being reconsidered. The immediate region around Riga is looking increasingly attractive both in terms of convenience and cost structures. In this context, Jelgava is now a prime location for relocating and expanding businesses.

Jelgava is a large centre being the fourth largest city in Latvia. In recent years it has been a dormitory for Riga with a very large percentage of Jelgava residents commuting to work in Riga. Given this situation, there is a large skilled and semi skilled local population ready to take new employment closer to their main place of residence. In this circumstance, both light manufacturing and back office operations can prosper both due to the lower cost structures in combination with a strong local skills base.

Looking at the location in a broader context, Jelgava is both convenient to Riga and the Baltic and Russian region as a whole. Being on the southern approaches to Riga, the location has many advantages for goods arriving or leaving by road via Lithuania or Poland or via Liepaja. In addition, goods arriving or travelling to and from the east to Byelorussia, Russia and Ukraine can be conveniently transited to this location. In this circumstance, Jelgava is ideal both for a consolidation centre for exports to the east as well as a consolidation and repackaging logistics centre for goods manufactured in the east for export to the west.

In both circumstances; for logistics due to its strategic and cost effective location, and for manufacturing and back office operations, Jelgava offers potential customers ideal circumstances for new, expanding or relocating businesses.