The Turnover of Transportation Companies in the European Countries of the Former Eastern Bloc before and after the Economic Crisis

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the key indicators of transportation companies, with emphasis on turnover of enterprises, in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), or of new European Union (EU) states before and after the economic crisis, and to compare them on the EU level. We will look at how the economic crisis has affected transportation companies of various sizes and the number of persons employed. We will analyze also changes in the labour market, turnover, added value, profit and labour productivity according to the size classes of companies. Changes in labour productivity will be viewed based on turnover and gross added value per employed person. The work efficiency of these companies will be compared to other EU states, incl. the Baltic States. Based on this and previous publications, we will offer a number of generalized recommendations.