WAREHOUSING & LOGISTICS
Warehousing & Logistics is a major employer in the
LCR, employing 36,000 people and accounting for 5.7% of all jobs in the region.
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated technological advances and the automation
of many routine tasks leading to increased home delivery, contactless
interactions with customers and robots picking customer orders in warehouses.
The Liverpool City Region is one of eight Freeport sites
across England. This will develop, among other skills, opportunities for
increased demand of warehousing and logistics within the region as a result of
further demand in freight and export with North and South America, as well as
Ireland, through Liverpool. New business models are also emerging with more
localised supply chains as a result of Brexit. Many of the jobs are requiring
different skills and ways of working which need upskilling and reskilling as
many of the jobs most at risk of being lost are at entry level or in elementary
occupations.