Orange with 6Medias, published on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 6:40 p.m.
In the coming months, the travel of professional movers and boxes will cost more. High inflation, aggravated by the war in Ukraine, partly explains the rise in prices.
It will not be good to move in the next few months.
No more by renting a truck than by going through the services of professional movers. The reason ? The inflation that has been hitting France for several months, caused in particular by the Covid-19 pandemic and more recently by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is, first and foremost, the increase in the price of fuel, which has pushed up the cost of travel, both for rentals and for movers. To compare, BFM TV indicates that the price of a move that would have cost 1000 euros in 2021 is now worth 1300 euros. “There was a very strong call for goods when the Covid came out, and prices rose for the first time. (…) We suffered a second simultaneous increase with the war in Ukraine”said Caroline Leproust, agency manager at The Gentlemen of the move to the television channel.
Inflation not ready to stop
Another essential element for a move: boxes. Their production requires paper pulp which has increased by 70% since the beginning of 2022, in particular due to the increase in the price of electricity, indicates BFM TV. “The book box is the most obvious case of increase. We went from 1 euro to 1.30 euro. After above we have the standard box, which was at 1.90 euro and now it is 2 euros. If it continues to increase, I do not see how we are going to do it”explained Steven Marchand, of the site demenagerseul.com at the microphone of RTL. According to forecasts by Henri Sterdyniak, economist and co-founder of Les Economistes Atterrés, general inflation might persist for two years, given the resumption of Covid-19 in China and the escalation to be feared from the Ukrainian conflict.
