The markets are on the move: Due to advancing globalisation, declining trade barriers and an increasingly mobile workforce, the transport and logistics industry continues to enjoy above average growth. By expanding their service offerings both upstream and downstream, transport companies and logistics service providers are also becoming masters of their supply chain, both forward and backward. Many companies in the industry are following manufacturers into new sales markets such as Eastern Europe and East Asia, which, in turn, have long ago become source markets with growing exports. Supply chains often stretch around the world and require a global business strategy. International growth through acquisitions, joint ventures or alliances is often crucial to their economic survival. Some companies try to position themselves optimally in profitable niches; the "big ones"—many of them former government-owned enterprises—have become capital market oriented global players. Companies in Europe operate on partly regulated but increasingly liberalised markets, while legislation and fiscal law have until now, only been partly harmonized. New technologies also create significant investment requirements.
Transportation & logistics challenges
- Carbon emissions
- Deregulation/liberalisation/privatisation
- Financing transport infrastructure and public private partnerships
- Managing tax risks
- Managing fraud
- Maximising revenues
- Meeting international financial reporting standards requirements
- Mergers and acquisitions as facilitator of industry restructuring
- Opportunities in the emerging markets
- Traffic management
- Sustainability
- Managing tonnage tax
How PricewaterhouseCoopers can help you
In these times of change, what’s required of transport and logistics enterprises? Financial transparency, sound risk management processes and state-of-the-art technology. At PricewaterhouseCoopers, our transportation & logistics professionals can provide assistance on these matters and more including ways to enable world-wide alliances and quality partnerships between your company and others. PricewaterhouseCoopers develops individual, integrated solutions for companies in the transportation and logistics industry. In financial statement audits under IFRS and HGB, audit-related services and consulting projects at large and medium-sized companies, our specialists have years of experience in areas such as financial statement audits, audit related services and consulting projects at large and medium sized companies.Transportation & Logistics is a diverse industry sector including all modes of transportation of goods and people. In order to structure our industry work, we have defined four market segments. Please click on the segment of your choice to receive additional information on the services and solutions we provide
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