Industry Reports

This is the most recent GEA study, conducted by Frontier Economics on the basis of data provided by the GEA's four members.  In particular the study looks at GEA’s ‘Customs Capability Database’ – a tool that measures key performance indicators of border management in 140 countries – and relates this to express shipment volumes in 10,000 country pairs (regression analysis).

The study concludes that implementing a single additional trade facilitation measure, for instance providing 24/7 automated customs processing, could lead to a country’s trade growing 4.4% over time.  This is an average figure for all the countries sampled.  The findings are in line with earlier studies on the effects of trade facilitation conducted by the WEF and the OECD.

The study also concludes that:

-       Express delivery grew on average by 7% over the past five years despite the financial crisis.

-       The fastest growth took place outside Europe and North America.

-       The total economic impact of the express delivery industry globally can be quantified at 0,19% of global GDP, or over 140 billion USD. It supports a total of around 3 million jobs (full-time equivalent) between those directly provided and indirect and induced jobs.

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