Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: April 2008
Product Code: R313-32501Description Introduction
The UK Road Freight Outlook is part of the European Road Freight series, which assesses the road freight industry, key road transport indicators, major trends and challenges affecting the road freight sector and the key road freight service providers. The report also forecasts the outlook for road freight transportation in the UK.
Scope
An assessment of the United Kingdom’s road freight sector, including an analysis of the current trends and future challenges.
A quantitative breakdown of the industry through analyzing key road freight indicators such as transport performance and volume.
Detailed profiles of the leading road freight service providers operating in the UK.
Report Highlights
The UK road freight industry is amongst the largest and most developed in Europe, with an extensive and well connected road transport network. The industry has matured over the years, with the share of outsourced business rising steadily over the past decade.
The industry has witnessed hectic activity at the company level, with one of the biggest road freight firms in the UK, Christian Salvesen, being acquired by the French giant, Norbert Dentressangle, making the resultant entity one of the largest players in the European road freight market.
However, the industry has been facing tough times with increasing operating costs, as well as costs of compliance with government directives. High levels of taxes on petrol mean that the price of fuel in the UK is higher than the EU average, which affects the competitiveness of UK road freight providers vis-à-vis foreign operators.
Reasons to Purchase
Gain an analytical insight into the major factors currently affecting the market and trends set to shape the future of road freight industry in the UK
Understand the current situation in the UK road freight market through top level economic and freight data.
Table of Contents - CHAPTER 1 THE UNITED KINGDOM ECONOMY
- CHAPTER 2 ROAD TRANSPORT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
- 2.1 Road Transport Indicators
- 2.2 Top Road Freight Companies in the UK
- 2.2.1 Wincanton
- 2.2.2 Gist
- 2.2.3 Norbert Dentressangle / Christian Salvesen
- 2.2.4 TDG
- 2.2.5 Business Post Group
- 2.3 Major Events, Impacts, Challenges & Opportunities
- 2.3.1 Increasing Operating Costs
- 2.3.2 Competitiveness Challenges
- 2.3.3 Road Congestion
- 2.3.4 Increased Carbon Emissions
- 2.3.5 Shift: Road to Rail; Asia to Europe; Big to Small
- 2.3.6 The London Low Emission Zone
- APPENDIX
- Methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- Datamonitor consulting
- Disclaimer
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: The United Kingdom: Economic Indicators (%), 2004-2008
- Figure 2: The United Kingdom: Economic Indices (%), 2004-2008
- Figure 3: The United Kingdom: Retail Sales Index Y-O-Y Growth Rate (%), 2004-2007
- Figure 4: The United Kingdom: Motorway and Trunk Road Network
- Figure 5: The United Kingdom: Road Length by Type of Roads (Km), 2006
- Figure 6: The United Kingdom: Road Freight Performance (Billion Tonne Kilometres), 1990-2006
- Figure 7: The United Kingdom: Road Transport Performance by Commodity (Billion Tonne Kilometres), 2006
- Figure 8: The United Kingdom: Road Transport Performance (Billion Tonne Kilometres) by Commodity (%), 2006
- Figure 9: The United Kingdom: Structure of Transport Performance (Billion Tonne Kilometres) by Mode excluding Air (%), 2006
- Figure 10: The United Kingdom: Road Transport Performance by Mode of Working for Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (Billion Tonne Kilometres), 1996-2006
- Figure 11: The United Kingdom: Road Transport Performance by Weight of Vehicle (Billion Tonne Kilometres), 1996-2006
- Figure 12: The United Kingdom: International Road Transport Performance by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (Million Tonne Kilometres), 2006
- Figure 13: The United Kingdom: Structure of Outward International Road Transport Performance by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (%), 2006
- Figure 14: The United Kingdom: Structure of Inward International Road Transport Performance by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (%), 2006
- Figure 15: The United Kingdom: Volume of Goods Transported by Road (Million Tonnes), 1992-2006
- Figure 16: The United Kingdom: Volume of Goods Transported by Mode excluding Air (%), 2006
- Figure 17: The United Kingdom: Volume of Goods Transported by Mode of Working for Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (Million Tonnes), 1996-2006
- Figure 18: The United Kingdom: Volume of International Road Haulage by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (Thousand Tonnes), 2006
- Figure 19: The United Kingdom: Structure of Outward International Road Haulage by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (%), 2006
- Figure 20: The United Kingdom: Structure of Inward International Road Haulage by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes (%), 2006
- Figure 21: The United Kingdom: Outward International Road Haulage by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes by Commodity (Million Tonnes), 2006
- Figure 22: The United Kingdom: Inward International Road Haulage by UK Registered Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes by Commodity (Million Tonnes), 2006
- Figure 23: The United Kingdom: CO2 Emissions by End User Category (Million Tonnes), 2001-2005
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