The Logistics, Transportation and Distribution Sector
The Sector
This sector covers all land and air modes of physically transporting goods and passengers as well as the supply chain involved in
getting goods and services, through wholesaling and distribution components, from supplier to user.
Since most goods and services in the modern economy consist of a supply chain in one form or another, the scope of this sector is
extremely wide.
The following key facts illustrate the size and diversity of this sector:
- In physical terms the UK ‘transports’ over 200 billion tonne-kilometres of freight (excluding movements by coastal and deep sea shipping).
- 800 billion passenger-kilometres are transported, of which nearly 85% is by private car.
- The wholesale and distribution trades for both goods and services have a turnover of around £1,000 billion.
Our Experience
The 3Spheres UK team have conducted many studies across this sector
looking at market size and structure, new service and product development, customer needs and satisfaction, and branding and
marketing activity evaluation.
Our experience includes some of the pioneering work associated with the Channel Tunnel, road ⁄ rail hub assessments,
commercial vehicle (CV) market analyses, parcels distribution, as well as research on goods and services used within this
sector such as fork lift trucks, and CV maintenance and servicing.
3Spheres UK has extensive experience looking at the
end–to–end distribution chain for many products and services from primary supplier to the user, whether that is in
business markets or consumer goods.
Studies have covered alcoholic and soft drinks, building materials and products, catering products, electric cables, laboratory and
electronic equipment, electrical products, hand tools, horticultural products, metals and metal products, oil and gas, packaging
materials, and engineering products and services.
Contact 3Spheres UK for marketing and research projects within the
logistics and transportation industries
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