The rate of insolvencies in the transport industry is accelerating. The industry has many challenges, one of the biggest being new EU regulations. In order to survive, it may be necessary to merge smaller companies into larger entities. Between January and July 2018, 580 companies went bankrupt in Poland. This represents an increase of up to 29 per cent compared to the same period in 2017.
Experts attribute this situation to deteriorating business conditions. These are payment backlogs, rising fuel costs, insufficient number of drivers and new regulations on EU markets (minimum wage and drivers' working standards).
As a result, more and more Poles choose to work for foreign carriers, closing down their own businesses, small companies family.
In this situation, the time seems inevitable for an increase in transport service rates. This is being demanded, among others, by two large European carriers - the German Nagel Group and the Hungarian Waberers
Both are unanimous in calling on all hauliers to raise their transport service rates by an average of 6 per cent. This, they argue, is the minimum to cover the rising cost of doing business.
According to hauliers, fuel consumption and transport logistics costs cannot be optimised any further so that they are not passed on to the end customer.
A reshuffling can also be expected in the industry. The small ones, in order to survive, have to start merging.
18 September 2018:
" Polish transport companies are collapsing. It is getting worse
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