Press Transportation and storage: employment in the 2nd quarter 2016 up 3.0% on the same period of 2015

Press release No. 308 of 7 September 2016

WIESBADEN – The number of persons employed in transportation and storage rose by 3.0% in the second quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter of 2015. Based on first calculations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that employment in this economic sector has risen continuously for six years compared with the corresponding quarters of the previous year. Turnover increased by 2.1% in the second quarter of 2016 from the same quarter of the previous year.

Basic data and long time series are available in tables Turnover indices in the service sector (47414-0001) and Employment indices in the service sector (47414-0008) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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