Logista Freight analyses how and where trade flows in the pharmaceutical sector are moving in a recently published report.
Madrid, 25 March 2025. 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.
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