The highest productivity is reached in the transport via pipeline segment. The UK and the Netherlands in particular hold high values here. As the comparability to the other transport sectors is not directly given, these values should not be over interpreted (42).
The second highest values are to be found in the sea and coastal freight water transport sector. Surprisingly, this sector also holds one of the very few negative values in Cyprus. Values of about € 50 – € 70 are reached in the sectors inland freight water transport (H504), freight air transport (H512), warehousing and storage (H521) and support activities for transportation (H522). Except for the last mentioned sector, these sectors carry out hub-oriented services, i.e. for the operation in these fields, a physical hub or port is of high relevance.
Going down the rows, there are nations with far below average (43) values like Latvia and Lithuania in the warehousing sector. The lowest overall productivity figures are reached in freight rail transport, road freight sector and other postal and courier services. These sectors carry out the physical transports via road and rail infrastructures, which are labour-intensive. In general, the figures show the relation of the overall productivity per person employed, i.e. high figures result from a low workforce or a low overall productivity. Sea and coastal freight water transport and inland freight water transport show one negative value for the most recent year each.
The following figure displays the development of the productivity of the transportation and storage sector for the EU27 (gross added value per person employed).