The number of persons over 15 years of age employed in transport occupations in the European Union has decreased by 6% compared with 2019, from 11.6 million to 10.8 million people, according to data released by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office.
These transport jobs include heavy truck and bus drivers (35% of people employed in transport occupations), transport and storage labourers (22%), car, van and motorcycle drivers (19%), messengers, package deliverers, luggage porters and other elementary workers (12%), refuse workers (5%), locomotive engine drivers and related workers (3%) and travel attendants, conductors and guides (3%).
Among transport jobs, conductors and guides registered the largest drop in employment in 2020 (-16% in the number of people employed compared with 2019), followed by transport and storage labourers (-11%).
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Source: Cyprus News Agency