Road Logistics Market from Europe Growing

10.03.2017

In 2016, road transportation market from the countries of the EU to the major countries of the Eurasian region (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan) grew by 1.7% against the year 2015, making 17,483 thousand tons (hereinafter according to the data taken from Eurostat).

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The growth in road logistics market in the above mentioned direction was mainly due to a considerable increase of import traffic flow to Ukraine, which was 16.7% more in 2016 over 2015, totaling 4,555 thousand tons. By percentage, there was a considerable increase of imports to the Republic of Kazakhstan – 779 thousand tons (+44.5%). A great volume of electric equipment and component parts exported there made this growth possible – the volume of cargoes expressed in physical terms grew 8 times against July of that year. However, the volume of cargoes came back to its old level in the following months.

Imports to Russia decreased by 2.9% in 2016 over the year 2015, up to 9,490 thousand tons. So, it’s clear that road transportation market between the EU and the Russian Federation has become stable against the great decrease by -32% in 2015 over the year 2014.

The reason for a considerable decrease in the volume of road transportations from the European Union to the Russian Federation in 2015 lies in the Russian economic recession and mutual sanctions between Russia and the European Union, which resulted in a significant reduction of imports (foodstuff and certain types of equipment) to the Russian Federation. Despite the continued recession in Russia, cargo flow from the EU to Russia changed its import commodity structure in 2016, which helped preserve the volume of transportations at the level of the year 2015.

2,657 thousand tons were imported to Belarus in 2016, which is 10.6% less than in 2015. The reduction was mainly due to a decrease of imported vegetables and fruit.

Road transportations from the EU to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2015/16, in tons

	Russian Federation		Ukraine		Belarus		Kazakhstan
	2015	2016	2015	2016	2015	2016	2015	2016
EU (28 countries)	9773976	9491530	3904026	4555250	2971223	2656726	539377	779645
Germany	2203813	2182707	611350	725311	197955	195519	112263	94143
Poland	1417454	1279794	1387400	1676398	991628	1354821	115065	115518
Finland	1204329	1147058	112520	110398	19651	22909	5487	4635
Netherlands	633804	702621	208460	226980	72936	64024	39808	317302
Italy	634223	663575	155673	190893	41934	41857	48439	46919
Lithuania	633195	540154	97012	105057	1330360	689229	82675	65813
France	395975	391519	83056	109096	20425	20353	21971	21749
Czech Republic	365445	375157	150106	159143	34256	28979	13195	10892
Belgium	310803	317023	93487	115208	42133	40551	20657	18057
Sweden	272994	259475	45838	51300	9901	10941	3071	3184
Latvia	275538	249682	41637	42049	45744	28600	5977	13888
Austria	280187	239051	76593	109925	28227	22636	20593	15424
Hungary	185690	184973	234708	251567	17928	17792	4298	5415
Estonia	179465	170445	52864	49917	19088	24719	3030	3150
Romania	168168	156105	178814	184180	10815	6672	6428	5837
Spain	128053	125849	42288	44997	32503	28259	13140	8104
Slovakia	119366	120667	159222	201440	19673	19916	3860	2096
Slovenia	89768	90118	23399	29341	8351	8094	4655	12632
Great Britain	80291	72278	50864	57312	4734	4384	6343	7969
Denmark	61581	64260	35970	44216	6417	7494	1908	1420
Bulgaria	57074	60856	29649	15647	5488	5571	1968	1233
Greece	28174	37331	26721	43334	5921	8236	2086	1718
Luxembourg	23456	34661	869	1633	289	132	97	443
Croatia	13811	13602	1704	5802	2982	4332	804	755
Portugal	8182	6909	2934	3195	1360	346	88	69
Ireland	3134	5660	888	911	301	219	1471	1280

Marketing Department of TELS Group of Companies, source – Eurostat