Rail Freight in the United Kingdom

Rail Freight in the United Kingdom

Datamonitor's Rail Freight in the United Kingdom industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the rail freight industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

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* Inform your business decisions

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Market Definition

The freight rail transportation industry profile reviews companies providing goods rail transportation. The industry value reflects revenue generated from freight rail transportation. All currency conversion used in this report are at the constant 2007 annual average exchange rate.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Volume 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation 11
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis 12
5.1 Summary 12
5.2 Buyer Power 13
5.3 Supplier Power 14
5.4 New Entrants 15
5.5 Substitutes 16
5.6 Rivalry 17
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 18
6.1 Deutsche Bahn AG 18
6.2 FirstGroup plc 21
6.3 FreightLiner Group Limited 24
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 25
7.1 Market Value Forecast 25
7.2 Market Volume Forecast 26
CHAPTER 8 Macroeconomic Indicators 27
CHAPTER 9 Appendix 29
9.1 Methodology 29
9.2 Industry Associations 30
9.3 Related Datamonitor Research 30



LIST OF TABLES


Table 1: United Kingdom Rail Freight Sector Value: $ billion, 2003-2007 9
Table 2: United Kingdom Rail Freight Sector Volume: Net ton-kilometers billion, 2003-2007 10
Table 3: United Kingdom Rail Freight Sector Segmentation: % Share, by Value, 2007 11
Table 4: Key Facts: Deutsche Bahn AG 18
Table 5: Key Financials: Deutsche Bahn AG 20
Table 6: Key Facts: FirstGroup plc 21
Table 7: Key Financials: FirstGroup plc 23
Table 8: Key Facts: FreightLiner Group Limited 24
Table 9: United Kingdom Rail Freight Sector Value Forecast: $ billion, 2007-2012 25
Table 10: United Kingdom Rail Freight Sector Volume Forecast: Net ton-kilometers billion, 2007-2012 26
Table 11: United Kingdom Size of Population (million) , 2003-2007 27
Table 12: United Kingdom GDP (Constant 2000 Prices, $ billion), 2003-2007 27
Table 13: United Kingdom Inflation, 2003-2007 27
Table 14: United Kingdom Exchange Rate, 2003 28