France intermediate consumption: transport services
France intermediate consumption: transport services stood at 167,094 EUR million in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1949 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate consumption | |||||||||||
| Transportation and storage | 167,094 | 163,056 | 154,672 | 143,858 | 130,299 | 121,043 | 134,746 | 130,405 | 122,565 | 116,900 | |
| Accommodation and food service activities | 34,708 | 33,340 | 30,986 | 28,173 | 17,987 | 17,572 | 30,218 | 28,238 | 26,594 | 27,094 |
Understanding france intermediate consumption: transport services
Freight hauling, passenger transit, warehousing facilities, postal activities, and courier services purchased by businesses to support operational logistics are tallied in this measure. It aggregates the monetary outlays for moving inputs, finished goods, and personnel across transit networks, excluding internal fleet operations owned directly by the reporting enterprise. This separates external logistics service acquisitions from manufacturing or wholesale margins.
Interpreting this data requires attention to fuel cost pass-throughs, which can cause monetary expenditures to diverge sharply from physical cargo volumes. Annual evaluations help neutralize short-term transport bottlenecks or weather-related transit disruptions. Analysts comparing these logistics expenses with industrial production metrics must account for shifts in outsourcing patterns, where companies transition from internal transport fleets to commercial providers.
Frequently asked questions
- What activities comprise transport and storage intermediate consumption?
- The series covers freight transport, warehousing, courier services, and passenger transit purchased by enterprises.
- Does this include fuel costs for company-owned delivery trucks?
- No, it measures commercial transport services acquired from external providers rather than internal fleet fuel expenses.
- How do fuel price surges affect these figures?
- Surcharges for fuel can elevate transport service expenditures even when physical cargo volumes remain flat.