Insights on the Worldwide Parcel Delivery Industry to 2024 – Online Retail is the Main Driver of Growth in the Market – ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Parcel Delivery Market Insight Report 2020” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The global parcels market was almost US$430bn in 2019, up from just under US$380bn in 2018.

Asia Pacific is the largest regional parcels market by value, accounting for around 42% of the global market. North America and Europe together represent a little over 50% of the market.

China is the key growth market, representing almost 62% of the Asia-Pacific regional total by value. Chinese volumes reached 64bn in 2019.

The US is still the largest country market in value terms, although China has surpassed it in volume. In Europe, Germany remains the largest market with Italy and the UK having been the fastest-growing of the main countries (8.5% and 7.1% CAGR respectively).

The report covers the parcels market at the global level and region-by-region.

• There is necessarily most focus on the top 10 country markets (US, Canada, Germany, UK, France, Italy, China, Japan, India and Brazil), although the author’s historical and forecast market size and growth estimates are provided for all countries.
• The report provides historical and forecast market sizes covering the period from 2013-2023. Adjacent services, such as mail, pallet distribution, groupage, freight forwarding, same-day courier and contract logistics are excluded wherever possible.
  

Online retail is the main driver of growth in parcel delivery volumes.

• Global online sales were in excess of US$3.3trn in 2019, having grown at a rate of 22% per year.
• The largest online retail country markets are the US, UK, China and Japan.
• China has had online retail growth of more than 33% per year.

COVID-19

This report was researched during January and February 2020, before COVID-19 had spread globally and become a pandemic.

In the last couple of weeks, views on the impact of the virus on the global economy and on online retail have changed rapidly. Current expectations are that:

• Global GDP will fall significantly in Q1 and Q2, with a recovery in Q3
• Online retail has benefitted from the large-scale substitution of purchases from physical stores, many of which are now closed. However, this is increasingly likely to be offset by people reducing non-essential purchases.

In this report, the author provides their original forecast, as prepared in February 2020, along with an update reflecting their latest views on how they now expect the market to perform during this year (2020) and what implications this has for later years.

The author expects this view to be updated as events unfold and intend to issue revisions of their commentary on a regular basis until market conditions return to a more stable pattern.

Key Topics Covered:

1. About this report

2. Market definition

• Characteristics of the market
• Business vs. consumer delivery
• Other segmentations of the market
• Premium / economy
• International / domestic
• Global parcels market size
• Regional overview
• Largest country markets
• Global market drivers
• Economic growth trends
• Online retail
• Internet retail growth by country
• Internationalisation of online retail
• Challenges of increased B2C deliveries for carriers
• Global parcels market forecasts

3. COVID-19

4. Global market size

• Global parcels market forecast by region / country
• Europe
• North America
• Asia Pacific
• South America
• Africa
• Middle East
• Driver forecasts
• Economic growth
• Online retail
• Risks to forecasts
• Global market trends

5. Development of more effective last mile delivery solutions

• Parcel shops and locker networks
• Self-employed couriers
• Delivery to the workplace
• Home lockers and in-boot deliveries
• Leading retailers playing a more active role in delivery
• Amazon
• Alibaba
• JD.com
• Argos
• Click & Collect
• Improvement in carrier systems supporting improved customer service
• Increased use of technology in carrier operations
• Hub and depot automation
• Last mile delivery technology
• PoD improvements
• Blockchain
• Variations in, or alternatives to, hub and spoke models
• New entrants with different business models
• Growth of same day delivery
• Evolving role of postal operators
• Increased role of brokers to serve the C2X segment
• Supply chain trends leading to slower growth of B2B parcels
• Environmental impact of delivery
• Global competitive landscape

6. Integrators vs. other private carriers and postal operators

• Integrators
• Postal operators
• Other carriers
• Parcel revenues
• Group revenues
• Operating margins
• Volumes
• Revenue per parcel
• Carrier Alliances
• Post office and independent carrier alliances
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Major strategic moves which have shaped the industry
• FedEx acquisition of TNT
• Recent acquisition activity
• Outlook for competitive landscape

7. Global Parcel Carrier Profiles

• UPS
• Description
• Revenue
• Segmentation
• Operations / Geographical Presence
• Profit
• Acquisitions
• Significant News
• Deutsche Post DHL
• FedEx Corporation
• Japan Post Group
• Royal Mail
• USPS
• Le Groupe La Poste
• SG Holdings (Sagawa Express)
• Amazon Logistics

8. Regional parcels markets

• Europe
• Market definition
• Characteristics of the market
• Business vs. consumer delivery
• Other segmentations of the market
• Premium / economy
• International / domestic
• Market value
• North America

9. United States

10. China

Companies Mentioned

• Amazon Logistics
• Deutsche Post DHL
• FedEx
• Japan Post Group
• La Poste Group (GeoPost)
• Royal Mail Group
• SG Holdings (Sagawa Express)
• United States Postal Service (USPS)
• UPS
• Yamato
  

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