A little over half of international transport services to and from the Netherlands are carried out by Dutch trucks. The share of foreign carriers on the market is growing.
In 2016 the trucks with Dutch plates carried out 52% of the international transport of windmills and tulips from and to the country. It is less about 1 percent than last year and 10 percent less than 10 years ago – according to the data from the local statistics office, referred to by the transport website verkehrsrundschau.de.
In 2016 48% of the goods, i.e. 191 million tonnes, were transported across the Dutch borders by the trucks from abroad.
Poles with the largest share
Recent reports of the Dutch media are as encouraging as the data from Eurostat about the growing role of the Polish transport sector in Europe and statistics from the German toll.
In 2016 86 million tonnes of goods were transported to and from the Netherlands by the carriers from Central and Eastern Europe, with more than a half (55.4%, i.e. approx. 48 million tonnes) transported only by the Poles. Behind Poland Romania was classified, with a significantly lower result of 6.6 million tonnes, Bulgaria – 6.1 million tonnes and Hungary – 6 million tonnes.
Attention should be given to the trend on the Eastern market – in 2016 companies from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary transported from and to the Netherlands 19% more goods than last year. The carriers from the West – and Germany at their head – also reported an increase, though less spectacular (3.9%).
Poland is the leader of the EU
The data recently published by the Spanish Ministry of Transport confirm that the Poles conquered not only the Netherlands, but the whole EU transport market. 40% of the international transport is carried out by the companies from the Eastern Europe, with more than half of it carried out by the Poles.
The statistics of Spanish Ministry of Transport based on the data from Eurostat show clearly that the carriers from Eastern Europe have taken a large part of the EU market in the last 12 years.
In 2005 the undisputed leader of the international transport were the Germans (152.359 million tonnes in 2005), last year defeated by the Poles, who nearly doubled their result (242.858 million tonnes vs. 125.848 million tonnes).
