International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis

These last few years, French international road freight transport has been undergoing a loss of influence within Europe while traffic has increased and great manoeuvres are taking place since the opening of the European Union towards East. Some of the French transporters are then focusing back on th...

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Main Author: Laurent Guihery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2009-06-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/390.pdf
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description These last few years, French international road freight transport has been undergoing a loss of influence within Europe while traffic has increased and great manoeuvres are taking place since the opening of the European Union towards East. Some of the French transporters are then focusing back on the French market showing a worrying loss in competitiveness. On the contrary, German and Dutch companies are increasing their shares in the French market and have reorganized themselves within Europe to face Eastern Europe competition: follow-up on customers delocalizing in the East, networking, hyperproductivity, markets segmentation between high quality transport in the West, specific markets and low cost segment in Eastern Germany and East Europe (Poland, Romania, ...), intensive geographical closeness to a great harbour (Rotterdam)... What should France learn from German and Dutch experiences? On the basis of a comparison of our neighbours’ driving costs and road freight transport structure, our contribution - a synthesis of two recent studies ordered by the Comite National Routier (CNR, studies free to be downloaded by www.cnr.fr) - will first propose a cooperation with German or Dutch companies in order to propose a winner-winner model based on exchange of competencies: North Africa (Morocco for instance) and Southern Europe for French partners (specialization Storage - Logistics) and transport business model and opening towards the East for the German and Dutch partners.
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spelling doaj.art-e2943fcf5ec448bb90de15992af770222022-12-21T20:29:50ZengGeneral Association of Economists from RomaniaTheoretical and Applied Economics1841-86781844-00292009-06-01XVI618418678International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs AnalysisLaurent Guihery0 Lumiere University, France These last few years, French international road freight transport has been undergoing a loss of influence within Europe while traffic has increased and great manoeuvres are taking place since the opening of the European Union towards East. Some of the French transporters are then focusing back on the French market showing a worrying loss in competitiveness. On the contrary, German and Dutch companies are increasing their shares in the French market and have reorganized themselves within Europe to face Eastern Europe competition: follow-up on customers delocalizing in the East, networking, hyperproductivity, markets segmentation between high quality transport in the West, specific markets and low cost segment in Eastern Germany and East Europe (Poland, Romania, ...), intensive geographical closeness to a great harbour (Rotterdam)... What should France learn from German and Dutch experiences? On the basis of a comparison of our neighbours’ driving costs and road freight transport structure, our contribution - a synthesis of two recent studies ordered by the Comite National Routier (CNR, studies free to be downloaded by www.cnr.fr) - will first propose a cooperation with German or Dutch companies in order to propose a winner-winner model based on exchange of competencies: North Africa (Morocco for instance) and Southern Europe for French partners (specialization Storage - Logistics) and transport business model and opening towards the East for the German and Dutch partners. http://store.ectap.ro/articole/390.pdf international road freight transportGermanythe Netherlandsdriver costs
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International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis
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Germany
the Netherlands
driver costs
title International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis
title_full International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis
title_fullStr International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis
title_full_unstemmed International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis
title_short International Road Freight Transport in France: Experiences from Germany, the Netherlands and Driver Costs Analysis
title_sort international road freight transport in france experiences from germany the netherlands and driver costs analysis
topic international road freight transport
Germany
the Netherlands
driver costs
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