Press release No. 079 of 8 March 2017
WIESBADEN – In 2016, the number of persons employed in transportation and storage rose by 2.4% compared with a year earlier. Turnover increased by 1.2%. Based on first calculations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of persons employed was up by 2.0% in the fourth quarter of 2016. Hence employment in the transportation and storage sector has been consistently higher in each quarter year on year since the second quarter of 2010. Turnover increased by 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared with the fourth quarter of 2015.
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.