In the transport equipment sector the diffusion of basic Internet access and standard Internet applications (e-mail and the web), have almost reached saturation levels throughout Europe.
Which are the e-marketplaces operating in the sector? What products are traded through this internet channel?

According to eBusiness Watch, the European observatory on e-business issues, the transport equipment industries contributed 731bn Euro to total manufacturing production in Europe, and 78% of this production value can be attributed to the automotive industry.

Within the automotive industry, the manufacture of motor vehicles is by far the biggest industry sub-sector.

99% of sector employees in the EU-5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) work in companies that have Internet access and use e-mail, 94% in companies that also use the WWW, and 81% in companies that use an intranet.

The purpose of this report is to analyse who is using B2B e-marketplaces in the automotive industry and those trading platforms that are available today.