In the second quarter of 2025, revenue in the transport sector compared to a year earlier increased the most in the sub-sector of storage and transport services (+5.3 percent).
Revenue also grew in air transport (+3.8 percent) and land transport (+3.4 percent).
Within the sub-sector of storage and transport services, revenue grew the most in air transport services. Revenue was 28.5 percent higher in the second quarter than the same period a year earlier, marking the strongest growth since the fourth quarter of 2022.
Revenue in land transport services also increased (+17 percent).
In the second quarter of 2025, within the sub-sector of water transport, revenue particularly increased in inland shipping (+7.5 percent). In sea and coastal shipping, revenue actually decreased (-0.7 percent).
For inland shipping, this is the strongest growth since the first quarter of 2023, after two years of continuous decline in revenue.
Prices for transport and storage in the second quarter of 2025 were 2.1 percent higher than in the same period of 2024. Especially prices for services related to air transport, such as airport fees and air traffic control rates, increased (37.1 percent). This is the largest increase since the measurement began in 2021.
Prices for sea and coastal passenger transport, including ferry services to England, rose by 15.8 percent. This is also the largest increase since the measurement began.
In the second quarter of 2025, prices for goods transport by inland shipping were 8.1 percent higher than a year earlier. Prices for goods transport by inland shipping had previously decreased for two consecutive years.
54 transport companies went bankrupt in the second quarter of 2025, the same number as in the previous quarter.
Entrepreneurial confidence in the transport sector at the beginning of the second quarter of 2025 was -0.9. This indicates that entrepreneurs are less pessimistic than a quarter earlier, when entrepreneurial confidence was still -12.
This also means that entrepreneurs in the transport sector are less negative than the average entrepreneur. The entrepreneurial confidence of all Dutch entrepreneurs stands at -3.8 at the beginning of the second quarter of 2025.