Market Report, "Netherlands Freight Transport Report Q4 2010", published

Oct. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- A looming sovereign debt crisis overhung the eurozone in the first half of the year. By the summer with support given to countries like Greece and the banks had largely passed their stress tests these threats to growth started to be forgotten. Total trade in real terms is only expected to grow 2.5% in 2010 but this is a good recovery from the -5.57% contraction of 2010. The Netherlands top five export markets are all in the Eurozone which compounded the country's economic difficulties and affected demand for freight transport.

BMI predicts that imports and exports of manufactured goods in the Netherlands are expected to contract a second year with both about -4%. This represents the poor growth in consumer spending in the Netherlands.

The air cargo industry is expected to enjoy a modest recovery of 1.4% in 2010 from 2009's downturn of 16.82% in air freight tonnes, year on year change. For the Netherlands' largest airline, Air France-KLM, the recovery has been modest as cargo volumes grew by a narrow 0.8% year-on-year (y-o-y) in June compared with same period in 2009. And this was driven mainly by an -2.8% reduction in capacity, resulting in an increase in load factor of 67.7%. The carrier reported a record annual loss of US$545mn for 2009, leaving it with little choice but to freeze capacity in an effort to force up utilisation levels and prevent further losses.

We expect cargo handled at two of the key ports, the Port of Rotterdam (POR) and the Port of Amsterdam (POA), to grow at a moderate to good rate this year. In general tonnage terms, POR will have the fastest growth of 5.06% growth to 406.6mn tonnes, following a -8.1% contraction in 2009. This year, total volume at POA is expected to grow with a 3.5% to 89.67mn tonnes, which will not reverse the -8.6% decline in 2009.

Overland transport modes are set to largely recover. BMI expects rail freight to lead the way with a growth of 3.95% forecast for 2010 which will see total volumes reach 48.19mn tonnes after suffering a heavy -10.06% decline in 2009. Growth across the country's road freight sector is expected to be less impressive, however, with a volume increase of just 0.76% projected this year to 614.39mn tonnes. However, the contraction in 2009 was a modest -1.85% and road freight tonnes are largely comparable with pre-crisis levels.

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Report Table of Contents:

Executive Summary
SWOT Analysis
- Netherlands Political SWOT
- Netherlands Economic SWOT
Market Overview
- Multi-Modal
- Road
- Rail
- Air
- Water
Industry Trends And Developments
- Air
- Maritime
- Rail
- Logistics
Oil Products Price Outlook
- Table: Oil Product Price Data And Forecasts, 2010 (US$/bbl)
- Table: Oil Product Price Data And Forecasts, 2007-2014 (US$/bbl)
Industry Forecast
- Air Freight
- Table: Air Freight
- Maritime Freight
- Table: Maritime Freight
- Rail Freight
- Table: Rail Freight
- Road Freight
- Table: Road Freight
- Inland Waterways
- Table: Inland Waterway Freight
- Trade Overview
- Table: Trade Overview
- Table: Key Trade Indicators
- Table: Main Import Partners
- Table: Main Export Partners
Company Profiles
- TNT
- Air France-KLM
BMI Methodology
- How We Generate Our Industry Forecasts
- Transport Industry
- Sources

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