Main remaining problems
Although the expansion of global sales channels will broaden the LSP network, the intensity of European On- and Near-shoring will also foster the spatial competition amongst European LSP. In economic terms, the revenues of LSP are expected to decrease. Furthermore, centralisation is expected to decline the employment in the logistics sector. Overall, the economic net effect for the European logistics sector is inconclusive.
Furthermore centralisation, driven by transport infrastructure expansion and improvement, increases transport performance and negative environmental impacts. However, the total environmental effects are inconclusive depending on the type of infrastructural expansion (road / rail / iww (incl. nodes)) with its consequences for the development of modal split. Infrastructure expansions lower the visual quality of landscape, which constitutes a further problem.