“…The new rise of services hubs has raised the interest of urban‐regional development policy‐makers to add logistics and physical distribution activities to their portfolio (Bowen & Leinbach, ; Ferrari, Merk, Botasso, Conti, & Tei, ; Hesse, ; Musso, Benacchio, & Ferrari, ). Now, local entities seek to actively participate in the growing circulatory economy, by fostering logistics investments and the required improvements in infrastructure (Danyluk, ; Hesse, ; Jaffee, ; Levelt, ; Ziadah, ). This policy and governance dimension of logistics and freight distribution has gained more interest recently, as the restructuring of the industry has helped in mobilizing the related growth dynamics away from the old gateways, thus creating new logistics centers and secondary hubs.…”