The 2013 Import and Export Market for Parts of Railway or Tramway Locomotives, Rolling Stock Railway Vehicles, Coaches, Vans, Trucks, and Service Vehicles in Slovenia

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on parts of railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock railway vehicles, coaches, vans, trucks, and service vehicles in Slovenia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying parts of railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock railway vehicles, coaches, vans, trucks, and service vehicles to Slovenia? How important is Slovenia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of parts of railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock railway vehicles, coaches, vans, trucks, and service vehicles vary from one country of origin to another in Slovenia? On the supply side, Slovenia also exports parts of railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock railway vehicles, coaches, vans, trucks, and service vehicles. Which countries receive the most exports from Slovenia? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for parts of railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock railway vehicles, coaches, vans, trucks, and service vehicles in Slovenia. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for parts of railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock railway vehicles, coaches, vans, trucks, and service vehicles for those countries serving Slovenia via exports, or supplying from Slovenia via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing