However, the decline of the market volume by the was equipped with – 8% medium to long-term contracts in the contract logistics sector often with industry-standard minimum volume guarantees considerably less pronounced than in the Forwardingbereich. Since mid-2010 the industry again significantly in the direction of pre-crisis levels, what is the basis for medium-term estimates for growth rates of 7-12% p.a. until 2013 in forwarding and contract logistics is moving (road transport approximately 4%). Through the crisis-related tightening of the offer of transport capacity especially in the air and road prices of the carrier by about 30-50% increased now, partly reflected together with volume increases in revenue growth beyond the 50% in divisions of the leaders, especially in the forwarding. You already anticipates a natural cooling of growth rates for 2011 H2 and H1 2012. The main drivers for the above-average growth of the transport and logistics sector until the crisis are on the one in the disproportionate growth of the worldwide flow of goods by increasing division of labour and globalization.

On the other hand, the increasing outsourcing level of companies in relation to their logistics activities is a key growth driver for the contract logistics. Worldwide, so far only about 20% of contract logistics activities to external providers are awarded, where it is expected that this value will further increase in the coming years. II. M & A in the logistics market, the global transport and logistics market underwent enormous growth by almost 50% to US$ 3.7 trillion between 2004 and 2008. In the course of this dynamic development, M & A has always played a major role. The volume of logistics transactions (> 20 m) Enterprise value was in the last ten years the average ca 12 billion or 70 transactions p.a.. However the crisis years 2000/01 and 2008/09 on the M & A have impacted volumes and the cumulative transaction volume fell partly by more than 50%.