SUMMARY
This report highlights the essential changes having taken place in the technological and institutional areas of the transport and logistics markets and their influence on the developments in this area. It describes the growth of outsourced logistics services and the respective roles of the different players involved in the providing and using of such services. The influence of recent technological developments, such as greater use of multimodal transport, information technologies, EDI, and innovations in the field of containerization is outlined in Chapter I. Chapter II deals with innovations in the legal and institutional spheres, focusing in particular on the reforms taking place in rail transport. [English only]
