March 24, 2025
- Logista Freight analyses how and where trade flows in the pharmaceutical sector are moving in a recently published report.
Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands account for up to 68% of trade in pharmaceutical products in the EU-27. This is outlined in a report prepared by Logista Freight, Logista's long-haul, full-load transport subsidiary. It analyses the pharma sector’s trade relations within the European Union, a market that moves 3.3 million tonnes per year, amounting to more than 250 billion euros.
The report – which was recently published and can be downloaded from this link – gives an overview of the main trade flows among Member States, with trade from Ireland to Belgium, from Germany to the Netherlands and from the Netherlands to Germany in the top positions. The results of this assessment confirm the concentration of the sector in the European Union, as 15 of the 20 main points of origin and destination are found in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, forming an important trader cluster in its supply chain.
“We want to provide a comprehensive overview of how pharmaceutical trade is moving in Europe and identify the major freight corridors and the trends that will revolutionise the future. Our aim is to offer stakeholders in the industry a useful tool to optimise their strategies in a market that’s as dynamic and complex as this one”, Álvaro González-Escalada, General Manager of Logista Freight, states.
The study delves into production and distribution in the sector, breaking down data to show the dominance of the finished pharmaceutical product (FPP) segment – which accounts for nearly two out of every three movements in the industry – and that road transport, which comprises more than 93% of logistics flows in the EU-27, reigns supreme.
What's more, the report offers a detailed analysis of each country, describing which products are exported and imported, their main trading partners and the most used modes of transport in these flows. This information provides laboratories, distribution companies and all operators involved in the health industry with an accurate picture of the logistics and trade structure of the pharmaceutical market in Europe.
About Logista Freight – logistafreight.com
Logista Freight is a logistics company that specialises in long-haul logistics. It has one of the most extensive, most specialised and technologically advanced infrastructure and transport networks on the continent.
It manages a fleet of more than 1,400 vehicles and provides services across all countries of the EU. Local customer management is done through a network of its own subsidiaries in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Romania, the Czech Republic and Poland.
It has state-of-the-art on-board equipment, a revolutionary integration of safety and temperature control systems, and a proprietary technology platform that optimises routes to minimise empty kilometre driving, thus reducing the carbon footprint.
About Logista - logista.com
Logista is one of Europe’s largest logistics operators and specialises in distribution to proximity channels. It regularly serves almost 200,000 points of sale in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland, offering the best and fastest market access to a wide range of convenience products, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and lotteries, among others. It also stands out as the largest transport network in Spain, and in addition, is certified in food safety.
Logista has a team of highly qualified professionals made up of around 8,000 direct employees and a large number of collaborators such as Nacex franchisees, Logista Parcel representatives, drivers, etc. Employees and collaborators all focus on offering their customers the most efficient services, adapted to their needs.
For nine consecutive years, Logista has maintained its leadership position in CDP, which recognises global leaders in the fight against climate change. Logista is the only European logistics company listed in this category for this period.
In addition, Logista's firm commitment to sustainability was recognised in May 2024 by Sustainalytics, one of the world's leading evaluators of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance. After assessing the Company's ESG criteria, it awarded Logista an ESG risk rating of 16.5 points, indicating it considers Logista to be at Low Risk of experiencing material financial impacts due to ESG factors and accrediting the company as Industry TOP RATED 2024. This assesses the high performance in its sector outside the comprehensive coverage universe of Sustainalytics, with Logista achieving one of the top 50 ratings in the Transport industry.
Moreover, thanks to its strong commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, Logista has once again managed to position itself among the leaders in the sector on receiving an MSCI rating of A (the scale ranges from AAA-CCC) in 2024.
Logista also participated in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), S&P's corporate sustainability assessment. In February 2024, Logista was again recognised by the Financial Times as a "leader in diversity" and in April 2024, Ecovadis awarded Logista a bronze medal for its sustainability performance.
Logista is also part of the FTSE4Good IBEX index, comprising companies that demonstrate sound environmental, social and corporate governance practices, and the Ibex Gender Equality index. It also joined the Ibex 35 in 2022.