After a year of stagnation in 2014, the European TRM market is picking up and ended 2015 with growth of +2.4% %. This result is mainly due to the strong performance of the domestic road haulage market, which grew by 3.4% in %, while the international market remained stable at +0.5% in %, with a shift in activity from bilateral trade (-1.6% in %) to trade between third countries (+5.7% in %). Cabotage grew by +5.6% in %. Competition is therefore intensifying further. The flags of the new Member States (NMS) are growing four times faster than those of the EU15. 

Poland tripled its growth rate, +3.9% compared to 2014, but remains below the average rate for the NMS. Bulgaria and Romania, as well as the two flags from the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia and Croatia, posted record growth rates of between +10% and +11% year-on-year, thanks to their international development.

Among the EU15 pavilions, Germany, with +1.5 %, performed better than average. Spain, the second largest EU15 flag, posted a result of +7 % in 2015. Thanks to an exceptional performance of +11 %, the United Kingdom overtook France, which ended the year with a decline of -7 %. The decline in overall activity was even more pronounced in Portugal: -8.7 %.

Find all the figures and explanations in the 2015 European rankings, available for download.