The West is regaining its lustre

After briefly leading the rankings in 2017, Poland lost ground in 2018 and ceded its position as European TRM leader to Germany. Other Eastern European flags followed Poland's example. Conversely, Western flags made progress, reversing the trend observed over the past fifteen years. Spain, France and Italy are doing well thanks to strong increases in their domestic activity. The Spanish flag is also succeeding internationally with +5.8% in %, particularly in bilateral activity.

Growth in domestic activity, all flags combined, is slowing down, with +2.0% in 2018 compared to +3.6% in 2017, while international road haulage is suffering with -2.8%. All sub-categories of international road haulage are affected. For the first time since 2010, road freight transport between third countries and cabotage in Europe declined sharply, taking with it most of the Eastern flags.

Find all the figures and additional explanations in the 2018 European ranking, available for download.