The Effect Of Changes In Productivity On The Development Of Logistics Services In European Countries

The development and international competitiveness of Hungary's international relations depend on several factors. Nowadays, new production technologies have accelerated the ability of companies to produce. Thus, the delivery of goods in terms of tonnes per kilometre has also significantly increased. In recent years, instead of a labour-based economy, knowledge-based competitiveness has come to the fore. Some companies engage in intense international procurement but produce and sell on the local market, while other companies buy and produce in the country but sell on the international market. This study intends to analyse the data related to the transportation of goods and the strategic development of production networks for foreign and Hungarian companies. The main question is how the improvement in each country affects the national and international transport of production companies. This article focuses on the period 2010-2017. The goals are to see how fast production companies have changed in relation to Hungarian and international freight goods transport and how productivity has changed. There are several ways of transport: by water (rivers and sea) and land (road and rails). The analysis of relations used data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from ten members of the European Union: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden, and Slovakia.The relationships between the data were analysed using different descriptive statistical methods. The result of the research may have an impact on the development of international relations between production companies and the re-thinking of their production strategies.