Commonly, the economic crisis of 2008 and the consequential reduction of industrial and private business sectors demand is one of the crucial causes for declining figures from 2008 to 2009. The values for these years are the worst, with 17 negative growth rates overall. In the next year 15 Member States showed negative growth rates. The most recent year shows 13 of them.
Logistics market structure and subsectors relevance 22
The distribution and relevance of the several sub-activities within the logistics market can be indicated by the number of logistics enterprises and turnover per type of logistics activity.
The following Figure 2.10 illustrates the relevance of the nine logistics subsectors considered within the logistics service provider market. The data visualised is the amount of enterprises per logistics subsector as indicated in the legend for the EU27 and 18 Member States (23). The highest share represents the sector with the most enterprises operating in the market. With an arithmetic mean of 75.3% over the Member States, the road freight sector (H494) holds by far the most enterprises.