Tag: Road Transport

Motor Transport – Fastest growing Top 100

Posted by | Feb 5, 2007 | |

This year’s Top 100/Fastest Growing list shows just how much the industry has changed in the past year. New names dominate the first four positions. Exel was purchased by the German post office and has become DHL Logistics. Kuehne + Nagel now occupies the third position after it bought ACR Logistics. It was previously 9th in our listing. ACR itself was formerly Hays Distribution. And even more remarkable is the rapid rise of UPS in the UK in the number four slot, up from 6th after the purchase of Lynx Express. TNT Logistics is in 5th place, up from 7th and was purchased by venture capitalist Apollo Management.

There are just so many changes. Fast growing Innovate first purchased Grampian Country Foods and has now snapped up Corby Chilled. The assets of MacFarlane were purchased by Stephen Cooke who formed MacFarlane Transport Holdings. There was a management buy-out at NFT Distribibution, and Feige Merlin became Harrier and is now no more. United Freight Distribution purchased part of Sandy Bruce Trucking in August.

Add to that Wincanton snapping up the Lane Group and RDL and 2006 comes to an end showing considerable change. The long expected consolidation of the industry is now taking place. The big companies are getting bigger but smaller companies are also successful. Companies that have come through the years of steady increases in fuel prices and have survived are now well placed. To be successful you have to pass the cost increases on to customers. And the successful companies have succeeded in doing just that.

Read More

Road express revenues break EUR 2bn in Spain

Posted by | Feb 2, 2007 | |

Overall road freight revenues in Spain grew 7.6% last year to EUR 16.9 billion, with road express taking an increasing share of the market in line with the European trend, according to a new study by Madrid-based market researchers DBK.

Road express revenues have risen to over EUR 2 billion and now represent around 13% of total road freight income, up from 12.3% in 2004, DBK’s data indicates. The growth is a result of growing demand and rising tariffs.

The research, which looked at the 2004-2006 period, found that road express revenues were growing at a greater rate than the road freight market as a whole, reaching over EUR 2 billion in 2005 (+8.6%) and EUR 2.2 billion (based on the 2006 growth forecast for the Spanish express industry) last year, amounting to one-third of all express sector revenue in the country.

Read More

UK road haulage market update

Posted by | Jan 29, 2007 | |

The road haulage industry is a vital part of the UK’s freight-transportation system, although it is a mature market and one that has little real growth potential. This is demonstrated by the fact that, in 2005, the volume of goods lifted by road by GB-registered goods vehicles weighing over 3.5 tonnes in Great Britain increased by 0.1% to 1.75 billion tonnes, while the volume of goods moved by road increased by 0.3%, to 152.7 billion tonne kilometres.

Advances in vehicle technology, such as improvements to fuel efficiency and the better reliability of new trucks, have contributed significantly to the developments made in the operational efficiency of the haulage companies. Also important has been the trend by the operators to develop strategies to improve the efficiency of their assets by, for example, improving vehicle utilisation through better planning of journeys.

Leading companies within the road haulage industry are under pressure from their customers to establish and develop global logistics networks. This demand has led to a spate of acquisitions and mergers among the leading companies, such as the acquisition of Exel PLC, the UK’s leading freight-distribution company, by Germany-based Deutsche Post, and the merger between haulier ACR Logistics and Kuehne + Nagel, another Germany-based logistics operator.

Read More

Research and Markets: The UK Road Haulage Market

Posted by | Jan 29, 2007 | |

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Road Haulage Market Report 2006 to their offering.

The road haulage industry is a vital part of the UK’s freight-transportation system, although it is a mature market and one that has little real growth potential. This is demonstrated by the fact that, in 2005, the volume of goods lifted by road by GB-registered goods vehicles weighing over 3.5 tonnes in Great Britain increased by 0.1% to 1.75 billion tonnes, while the volume of goods moved by road increased by 0.3%, to 152.7 billion tonne kilometres.
The market consists of three main sectors: own-account distribution, contract distribution and shared-user distribution. Contract distribution and shared-user distribution are collectively known as public haulage or ‘hire and reward’ haulage. Contract distribution companies are often involved in the broader market for logistics or supply-chain management.
Advances in vehicle technology, such as improvements to fuel efficiency and the better reliability of new trucks, have contributed significantly to the developments made in the operational efficiency of the haulage companies. Also important has been the trend by the operators to develop strategies to improve the efficiency of their assets by, for example, improving vehicle utilisation through better planning of journeys.
Leading companies within the road haulage industry are under pressure from their customers to establish and develop global logistics networks. This demand has led to a spate of acquisitions and mergers among the leading companies, such as the acquisition of Exel PLC, the UK’s leading freight-distribution company, by Germany-based Deutsche Post, and the merger between haulier ACR Logistics and Kuehne + Nagel, another Germany-based logistics operator.

Read More

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

P&P Poll

Loading

What's the future of the postal USO?

Thank you for voting
You have already voted on this poll!
Please select an option!



View ResultsHide Results

Post & Parcel Magazine


Post & Parcel Magazine is our print publication, released 3 times a year. Packed with original content and thought-provoking features, Post & Parcel Magazine is a must-read for those who want the inside track on the industry.

Subscribe to the Magazine

 

Pin It on Pinterest