Carrier on the blocking of Romania’s accession to Schengen: We lose a number of benefits. Business would increase by 20%

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  1. DeepL translation:

    The freight transport industry is missing out on a number of benefits as Romania’s accession to the Schengen Area is blocked, says DSV Road, Europe’s third largest global provider of transport and logistics services.
    “In the context of blocking Romania’s accession to the Schengen Area, the freight transport industry loses a number of benefits that would have reflected positively on the entire business environment, on many local businesses that depend on imports and exports and implicitly on the Romanian economy,” says DSV Road, the third largest global provider of transport and logistics services in Europe.
    The company estimates that Schengen accession would mean an average 20% increase in its business, which may be similar to other companies in the market and the transport industry.
    According to representatives of DSV Road, which has been present in Romania since 1994, Romania’s presence in the Schengen area offers a number of advantages to the local transport industry, such as the elimination of waiting times at the border and an increase in transport capacity and the volume of goods transported.
    The elimination of borders will also increase the number of international hauliers’ trips and lower fuel costs, as waiting times for trucks at the border, which currently range from 24 to 72 hours, will disappear, especially at crossing points to Bulgaria (Calafat-Vidin and Giurgiu-Ruse) and Hungary, according to News.ro.
    “We are confident that a decision favourable to Romania will be taken in the near future, given that there will be new meetings at the level of European Union bodies. Romania’s entry into the Schengen Area will have immediate beneficial effects on the local transport and logistics market, accelerating the development of the local economy. Very importantly, it will significantly reduce waiting times at the border, which have cascading effects on the entire Romanian economy, which we all feel, both companies and individuals”, says Sergiu Iordache, managing director at DSV Road.
    Currently, because Romania is not a member of the Schengen area, there are a number of negative effects on the transport industry, which are also felt by consumers. Exceeding daily driving times recorded by drivers, higher fuel consumption during waiting times and delays in delivering goods to customers lead to problems in supply or in the running of some production processes, as well as increased costs for end customers.
    With the disappearance of borders and thus of waiting times at the entrance to Romania, transit times for DSV Road’s groupage lines to Western Europe will be substantially shortened.

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    At the same time, Romania’s entry into the Schengen Area will increase external and internal competitiveness, optimise transport costs and increase local consumption.

    At the same time, by joining Schengen, trucks will be used more efficiently and the number of drivers will increase.

    Europe’s driver shortage has increased by more than 40% from 2020 to 2021, according to a study by the International Road Transport Union (IRU), and will improve by up to 10% once borders are removed.

    In addition, lifting borders will make the EU’s car fleet more fluid. Currently, there are also bottlenecks at the border because of the EU Mobility Package regulation, which requires drivers to return home every few weeks.

    “As DSV Road Romania manages major distribution contracts in Bulgaria, the biggest impact will be shortening the time at the border. This is not a coincidental example as the presence in Schengen will have an effect on short trips, where the share of waiting time in the total trip time is higher. We hope that Romania’s accession to the Schengen Area will happen in the near future because it would be a beneficial change for any transport operator and any company, which will significantly influence the local economy”, underlines Mihai Teodorescu, road director at DSV Road.

    Also, the free movement of citizens in Schengen member countries will increase the potential for citizens currently settled in Europe to return to Romania, according to DSV Road representatives, who want to attract specialists among Romanians who are resettling in the country.

    “It is also essential that, by not crossing borders and reducing transport time, the amount of carbon emissions will be considerably reduced, thus protecting the environment. In this respect, DSV Road has taken important steps in reducing pollution by offering customers the choice of sustainable transport services. In 2022, given the growing demand for multiple transport services, DSV Road expects a 40% increase in business compared to last year, estimating a turnover of €70 million,” the company adds.

    DSV Road is one of the largest hauliers in Romania and Europe, offering full transport services – groupage, less than truckload and full truckload, as well as bio-fuel transport services as part of the company’s mission to reduce pollution. DSV Road is one of the legal entities of the DSV Group, which has been present in Romania since 1994, together with DSV Solutions and DSV Air&Sea.

  3. I have a good feeling that Romanians start to realize that they have a country with many possibilities…. Let’s see if in the future those possibilities are going to be used in Romanias benefit and not foreigners as so far …

  4. My pronouns are Boycott / Austria

    So today I closed my credit card with Erste/BCR. My salary will go from now on into another bank. I have also started the process of transferring my stock portfolio. It will be long, but in the end I will be able to close my BCR account altogether. I had it for almost 30 years.

    The Schengen incident opened my eyes: Why continue doing business with people who disrespect me?

  5. My heart goes out to the working truckers wasting their lives away in queues for corrupt pieces of shit.

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