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Corona snowball effect threatens transport sector
Recent figures show that 20 to 25% of Belgian transport companies have applied for temporary unemployment, which means that a fifth of the 103 000 people in the sector are temporarily unemployed and a fifth of the 71 300 Belgian trucks are stationary /dpa
Although there is still a lot of truck traffic on our roads, these are not golden times for the transport sector. The stagnation of economic life because of the corona crisis has its consequences here too. “I fear a snowball effect from which the transport sector cannot escape,” says Lode Verkinderen. The director of the
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