Holland is an outstanding location from which to serve European and world markets; a natural gateway with flat countryside and good river connections has been built into a dense infrastructure of ultra-modern and well maintained roads, railways, inland waterways, airports and seaports.
According to Agentschap NL estimates, the Dutch transport and communications GDP will contract by 4.2% in 2009, For the 2010-2014 forecast period Agentschap NL expects the transport and communications sector to outpace the economy as a whole. It will achieve average annual growth of 2.4% in value terms, versus 1.9% for overall GDP. The total value of transport and communications GDP will rise to US$80.4bn in nominal terms by 2014, representing 9.0% of the Netherlands’ GDP. The transport and communications sector employed 817,000 people, or 6.1% of the labour force, in 2009. Agentschap NL sees that figure easing down to around 813,000 by 2013

Source: Agentschap NL

Source: Agentschap NL

Agentschap NL’s overall forecast for freight carried in the Netherlands is for it to be broadly on a par with the wider economy based on a mature industry, good infrastructure, a moderate economic growth rate, and the country’s openness to foreign trade. Agentschap NL expects the best performing sector to be airfreight, which, with annual average growth of 2.5%, will come through another period of relative turbulence in the sector, caused by the European-wide recession. We believe Dutch aviation and the Air France-KLM alliance in particular, will ride out the storm. It will be followed by rail freight, where we are forecasting growth of 2.3% per annum, with resilience coming from recent investments – in particular the opening of a new freight line to Germany. Pipeline freight will grow by 2.0% throughout the forecast period, with road haulage just behind at 1.9%.

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